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In x86 assembly (and a lot of other contexts), 16 bits are called a word (a left over from 16 bit days when 16 bits were in fact a machine word), and larger dat
by DCoder 16y ago
In x86 assembly (and a lot of other contexts), 16 bits are called a word (a left over from 16 bit days when 16 bits were in fact a machine word), and larger data types are named dword (double word, 32 bits), qword (quad word, 64 bits), and so on. This terminology is even included in certain instruction mnemonics (movsb|movsw|movsd, ...).
- eliben 16y agoIn ptrace: > The size of a "word" is determined by the OS variant (e.g., for 32-bit Linux it's 32 bits, etc.). Taken from http://linux.die.net/man/2/ptrace http://linux.die.net/man/2/ptrace