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nupark2
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Can you name a single widely used modern processor architecture that uses odd word sizes?
Microcontrollers are fair game.
I can't think of one.
grout
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AVR-targeted gcc has an __int24 type. Not a power of two.
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AVRs have 8 bit words.
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Microcontrollers are fair game.
I can't think of one.