The FWORD data type, allocates & optionally initializes 6 bytes for each initializer, can be used as a type specifier anywhere a type is legal.

I was just browsing through the MSDN assembly reference and came across this:

FWORD. Allocates and optionally initializes 6 bytes of storage for each initializer. Also can be used as a type specifier anywhere a type is legal.


I honestly never had heard of FWORD, but I couldn't help but laugh at it's name. I'm quite surprised I've never heard of it.

You are not alone.. I just tried it (fwTest FWORD 0) and it worked. Seems to be quite useless IMO, however.

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fword is basiclly used in the multimodule, especially in linking with higher level programming, such as Pascal . Hence it gives this correspondence:
Integer - WORD
Real - FWORD
Single - DWORD
Pointer - DWORD

Hope I helped a bit regarding your comment: