The Old New Thing

July 19, 2006 - The Old New Thing

The traffic gods are punishing me for bicycling

July 19, 2006 Jul 19, 2006 07/19/06
Raymond Chen
It happened again. The last time I participated in a bicycle ride that started in Seattle, I got stuck in highway traffic both going out and coming back. The 520 bridge was closed for inspection so everybody was taking the I-90 bridge instead. But traffic at the western terminal of I-90 was backed up because the Alaska Way Viaduct was ...

Exported functions that are really forwarders

July 19, 2006 Jul 19, 2006 07/19/06
Raymond Chen
Last time, we saw how the way Win32 exports functions is pretty much the same as the way 16-bit Windows exports functions, but with a change in emphasis from ordinal-based exports to name-based exports. This change in emphasis is not expressed anywhere in the file format; both 16-bit and 32-bit DLLs can export either by name or by ordinal (...