The Old New Thing

The case of the mysterious over-release from deep inside the marshaling infrastructure

June 24, 2022 Jun 24, 2022 06/24/22

Raymond Chen

The tedium of monitoring reference counts.

Writing a marshal-by-value marshaler, part 2

June 23, 2022 Jun 23, 2022 06/23/22

Raymond Chen

Maybe you don't need a copy on the other side.

Understanding the marshaling flags: The free-threaded marshaler

June 22, 2022 Jun 22, 2022 06/22/22

Raymond Chen

Keeping your eye on the reference count.

Writing a compound marshaler

June 21, 2022 Jun 21, 2022 06/21/22

Raymond Chen

On the nature of streams.

On the importance of managing the stream pointer when manipulating marshal data

June 20, 2022 Jun 20, 2022 06/20/22

Raymond Chen

Making sure things are ready for the person who comes after you.

Writing a marshal-by-value marshaler, part 1

June 17, 2022 Jun 17, 2022 06/17/22

Raymond Chen

Creating an identical object on the other side.

The skeleton marshaler that does default marshaling

June 16, 2022 Jun 16, 2022 06/16/22

Raymond Chen

Starting with a marshaler that has no special features.

An initial look at the mechanics of how COM marshaling is performed

June 15, 2022 Jun 15, 2022 06/15/22

Raymond Chen

Pretend you're an oracle.

What are the various usage patterns for manually-marshaled interfaces?

June 14, 2022 Jun 14, 2022 06/14/22

Raymond Chen

The outermost simple layer, and the more complex inner layer.

Adventures in application compatibility: The case of the PC-relative indirect jump that reads from nowhere

June 13, 2022 Jun 13, 2022 06/13/22

Raymond Chen

A little too much copy/pasta.