The Old New Thing

July 21, 2006 - The Old New Thing

Floyd Landis stuns everybody on stage 17; Raymond less impressive

July 21, 2006 Jul 21, 2006 07/21/06
Raymond Chen
Wow. I delayed my departure for work Thursday morning until the results were in. And then I was inspired by Floyd's fantastic performance to kick it up a notch on one of the hills on my route, only to find about two thirds of the way up that there's a reason I don't normally go up the hill that fast... (On an unrelated note, a mini-van tried...

Calling an imported function, the naive way

July 21, 2006 Jul 21, 2006 07/21/06
Raymond Chen
An import library resolves symbols for imported functions, but it isn't consulted until the link phase. Let's consider a naive implementation where the compiler is blissfully unaware of the existence of imported functions. In the 16-bit world, this caused no difficulty at all. The compiler generated a far call instruction and left an external...