[wpkg-users] checking for 0xFFFFFFFF on a 64bit machine

[Rainer Meier]

Hello again,

On 04.04.2014 15:26, Rainer Meier wrote:
> However I did not test this specific case here but you might try to launch
> wpkg.js within 64-bit csript.exe explicitly.

I just did some more testing and here are the findings.

WSH usually internally works with signed integers. As a result a DWORD value of 
0xffffffff is equal to -1. This is basically entirely correct. Also the fact 
that 0xfffffffe correctly resolves to -2.
However I understand this is not intuitive especially since Windows registry 
seems not to allow negative DWORD values (unsigned integer).

It is possible also in WSH to convert to unsigned integer and I have implemented 
this change and commited to SVN. You might check out the latest commit and you 
will see that a DWORD value of 0xffffffff reads as 4294967295 now and therefore 
can be compared to 4294967295.

<http://sourceforge.net/p/wpkg/code/HEAD/tree/wpkg/stable/src/main/resources/wpkg/wpkg.js>


Note that WPKG cannot properly read 64-bit DWORD values (which I think is not 
required here) since regRead method on WSH does not support 64-bit DWORD values.

br,
Rainer