[Win32utils-devel] FFI and DWORD

[Heesob Park]

Hi,

2012/4/11 Daniel Berger <djberg96 at gmail.com>

> Hi,
>
> A DWORD is declared as: typedef unsigned long DWORD;
>
> However, the docs also say that it's a 32-bit unsigned integer. The
> range is 0 through 4294967295 decimal.
>
> When using FFI should I declare a DWORD as :ulong or :uint?
>
>
>
I think DWORD should be :ulong.

In the header file WinDef.h of Platform SDK, I can see

typedef unsigned long       DWORD;

Also refer to python's wintypes.py
http://coverage.livinglogic.de/Lib/ctypes/wintypes.py.html


Regards,

Park Heesob
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