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		nupark2 on June 3, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Musl libc 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 on June 3, 2012 | [–]

AVR-targeted gcc has an __int24 type. Not a power of two.

Ralith on June 3, 2012 | | [–]

AVRs have 8 bit words.

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