c++ question

hello all,
i am learning c++ and taking lessons in school
i was lookin at source code for some hacks and i saw: *(DWORD*).
please explain what that does. i searched google and found nothing at all about that.

Typically it represents a double word. On a 16-bit machine a WORD would be 16 bits, on a 32-bit machine, it would be 32 bits.

used in dll injections. you dont have to use dword you can use *(int*) or *(float*) etc...

Obama is right on the DWORD part. It's basically casting an address to a pointer then pointing to it's contents.

Example:

Address 0x12345678 stores the value of ammunition in a gun.

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*(DWORD*)0x12345678 = 99999; // Now you have a crap load of ammo
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Yea...