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Drink at work: The blog of a cartoonist

Raymond Chen June 28, 2005 Jun 28, 2005 06/28/05

Francesco ("Ces") Marciuliano is the author of the comic strip Sally Forth. In his blog, Drink at Work he expounds on whatever tickles his fancy. (Warning: Includes strong language, adult situations, and political views.) Sure, the stories on writing a cartoon are fun, especially when he responds to feedback from readers, and he also has ...

Why do Microsoft code samples tend to use ZeroMemory instead of { 0 }?

Raymond Chen June 28, 2005 Jun 28, 2005 06/28/05

If you go browsing around MSDN, you'll find that code samples tend to call ZeroMemory explicitly rather than using "= { 0 }" notation. Why is that? To make it clearer for people who are used to other programming languages. Like it or not, a significant percentage of people who write programs for Windows do it in languages other than C and C...

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June 28, 2005 | The Old New Thing

Drink at work: The blog of a cartoonist

Why do Microsoft code samples tend to use ZeroMemory instead of { 0 }?

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