qwords
qwords is the plural of qword.
Meaning of qword
Noun
qword (plural qwords)
- A quadword: four words, typically used in the same contexts as the fossilized 16-bit sense of "word" and thus 64 bits.
- On line 7, "X" and "Y" are defined to be qwords. Therefore, each is eight bytes long — the size of a double in C.1991, William B. Giles, Assembly language programming for the Intel 80XXX family
Questions about qwords
- What is qwords the plural of?
- Qwords is the plural of qword.
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