A 6 Byte Number Data Type

Does C++ have a 6 byte Number Data Type??.
I could not find one so I wrote my own class object for it
floats are 4
doubles are 8
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no, it doesnt. All it's got are chars, ints, floats, and longs.

Well depending on your compiler (which you don't mention), you could have
long long int foo;
__int64_t bar;

I just posted on another thread about bitfields, which you might be able to use. You can build a struct that aligns a specific number of bits for a data type.

Code:

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struct Int36
{
    int num : 36;
};

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it might get a little cumbersome to use, but I'm sure it wouldn't be too much of a hassle.

There are many ways you can accomplish it. You could do like skorman said with a little bit of inconvenience (and I mean little). I've used bitfields for embedded programming a lot. Worked like a charm for our robot controller.

You could go with Salem's method, if you don't care about wasting a little bit of space, which I again, I emphasise little

You could even make a C++ class and overload all the operators if you want to go all out :p

You can get this bahavior by using std::bitset