ZOMG Bill Gates owns the IRS

[CrAz3D]

Pretty nifty.

Out of curiosity, what is Gates position with Microsoft?...he own it or..

[iago]

He was the CEO, but he's not anymore.  I think he's still on the board, and possibly still owns the majority of the shares.

[Joe]

A short is 2 bytes, a long is 4 bytes, and an int is dependant on the system it's running on. 

Ew. I was thinking a long was a system DWORD, an int was a system WORD (I was right, woo!), and I a short was a system HWORD.

[MyndFyre]

A short is 2 bytes, a long is 4 bytes, and an int is dependant on the system it's running on. 

Ew. I was thinking a long was a system DWORD, an int was a system WORD (I was right, woo!), and I a short was a system HWORD.

What is a system HWORD?

[Newby]

Half word?

[iago]

Yeah, a halfword. 

Also keep in mind that Windows and some other OSes misuse the terms 'WORD' and 'DWORD', so they are, overall, pretty meaningless.  You're best off just using int8_t, int16_t, and int32_t, or whatever is defined on your system. 

[Newby]

He was the CEO, but he's not anymore.  I think he's still on the board, and possibly still owns the majority of the shares.

He's the CFO.

[Sidoh]

He's also the Chief Software Architect.

[MyndFyre]

Yeah, a halfword. 

Also keep in mind that Windows and some other OSes misuse the terms 'WORD' and 'DWORD', so they are, overall, pretty meaningless.  You're best off just using int8_t, int16_t, and int32_t, or whatever is defined on your system. 

So what do we do when we get to 64-bit computing as the standard?  What's a 16-bit value?  A QWORD (quarter word)?  We already have that, it's quad-word.

I've also never seen a "dh" command in assembly.

[iago]

Yeah, a halfword. 

Also keep in mind that Windows and some other OSes misuse the terms 'WORD' and 'DWORD', so they are, overall, pretty meaningless.  You're best off just using int8_t, int16_t, and int32_t, or whatever is defined on your system. 

So what do we do when we get to 64-bit computing as the standard?  What's a 16-bit value?  A QWORD (quarter word)?  We already have that, it's quad-word.

I've also never seen a "dh" command in assembly.

16 bits would either be a Quarter-WORD (they'd find a way to abbreviate it) or go unused or just be called a int16_t.  You don't really ever HAVE to use terms like "word" and "Dword" in programming, and it's generally a good idea not to, because they aren't consistant across platforms.  But because people incorrectly used them in many cases, they got stuck being unable to change it. 

[rabbit]

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