Thread: bytes long and short

Hi;

i am fooling around with a filling style of a polygon in opengl.
and have created a mask(namemask) that will fill the polygon
with the name "sia" .can someone explain to me as why
in stippling pattern(for lines), we use a DWORD(0xEB32)

and in mask we use example(0xFF) WORD unsigned short .
is there a reason?

am i right about the definitions on these two(DWORD & WORD)?

Code:

 GLushort lineStipple = 0xEB32;
  glLineStipple(3, lineStipple);

 
 
  GLubyte namemask[] = {
    0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0,
    0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0,
    0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0,
    0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0,
    0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0,
    0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0,
    0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0,
    0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0,
    0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0,
    0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0,
    0x0, 0xF1, 0x9F, 0xE0,
    0x0, 0x91, 0x90, 0x20,
    0x0, 0x11, 0x88, 0x20,
    0x0, 0x11, 0x88, 0x20,
    0x0, 0x11, 0x88, 0x40,
    0x0, 0x21, 0x8F, 0xC0,
    0x0, 0x41, 0x87, 0xC0,
    0x0, 0x81, 0x84, 0x80,
    0x02, 0x01, 0x84, 0x80,
    0x02, 0x01, 0x84, 0x80,
    0x01, 0x0, 0x82, 0x80,
    
    0x0, 0x81, 0x83, 0x0,
    0x0, 0x41, 0x83, 0x0,
    0x0, 0x39, 0x83, 0x0,
    0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0,
    0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0,
    0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0,
    
    0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0,
    0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0,
    0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0,
    0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0,
    0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0
    
  };