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September 15, 2006 - The Old New Thing

Disaster averted, thanks to international time zones

September 15, 2006 Sep 15, 2006 09/15/06
Raymond Chen
Boy, the world has been really lucky this year. After successfully avoiding a massive tsunami in the Atlantic Ocean, the world narrowly escaped global disaster as predicted by Yisrayl Hawkins, leader of the organization The House of Yahweh. What saved us? Well, I'll let Mosheh Sang, leader of the organization in Kenya, explain: According ...

Allocating and freeing memory across module boundaries

September 15, 2006 Sep 15, 2006 09/15/06
Raymond Chen
I'm sure it's been drilled into your head by now that you have to free memory with the same allocator that allocated it. matches , matches , matches . But this rule goes deeper. If you have a function that allocates and returns some data, the caller must know how to free that memory. You have a variety of ways of accomplishing this. One is...