C# 3 byte Ints

[StructLayout(LayoutKind.Explicit)]
struct OddUnion
{
    /* The 32-bit integer value */
    [FieldOffset(0)]
    public int IntegerValue;

    /* The bytes that overlap with it */
    [FieldOffset(0)]
    public byte Byte1;
    [FieldOffset(1)]
    public byte Byte2;
    [FieldOffset(2)]
    public byte Byte3;
    [FieldOffset(3)]
    public byte Byte4;
 }

OddUnion myOddUnion;
myOddUnion.IntegerValue = 4096;
Byte secondByte = myOddUnion.Byte1;

int  binary
0                       00000000
1                       00000001
...
127                     01111111
128            00000001 10000000
129            00000001 10000001
...
255            00000001 11111111
256            00000010 10000000
...
16383          01111111 11111111
16384 00000001 10000000 10000000