Well according to the MSDN DWORD is an unsigned integer with a range of 0 to 4294967295. So ideally you should replace it with uint rather than int. However, as you have spotted uint is non-CLS compliant so if your method is publicly visible you should use int and do the conversion. The corollary to … Read more
Actually, on 32-bit computers a word is 32-bit, but the DWORD type is a leftover from the good old days of 16-bit. In order to make it easier to port programs to the newer system, Microsoft has decided all the old types will not change size. You can find the official list here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa383751(VS.85).aspx All … Read more
DWORD is not a C++ type, it’s defined in <windows.h>. The reason is that DWORD has a specific range and format Windows functions rely on, so if you require that specific range use that type. (Or as they say “When in Rome, do as the Romans do.”) For you, that happens to correspond to unsigned … Read more
The dword ptr part is called a size directive. This page explains them, but it wasn’t possible to direct-link to the correct section. Basically, it means “the size of the target operand is 32 bits”, so this will bitwise-AND the 32-bit value at the address computed by taking the contents of the ebp register and … Read more