Does a DWORD occupies always 32bits in memory?

[Anonymous user]

Hello everyone,

I am having some problems that I cannot explained and I might think that is because data types and size in memory. So If anyone could tell me whether there is any case in which a DWORD can occupies more than 32bits or DWORD would always occupy 32bits no matter what.

Thanks in advanced.

[MikaelKrantz · Accepted solution]

As you did not specify where you have the DWORD, a generic answer is that a DWORD is 32 bit.

However, in some applications, you may not always got the DWORD, so you may need to reserve or allocate more bytes, but I think that is special cases, normally it is 32 bit.