Norman Diamond seems to have made a side career of harping on this topic on a fairly regular basis, although he never comes out and says that this is what he's complaining about. He just assumes everybody knows. (This usually leads to confusion, as you can see from the follow-ups.) Back in the ANSI days, terminology was simpler. Windows opera...
Bangs or bells.
Okay, so I explained that a lot of so-called functions are really redirecting macros, function-like macros, intrinsic functions, and inline functions, and consequently, won't actually get anything since the function doesn't exist in the form of an exported function. But why, then, can you for ? Let's take a closer look at the exports from . H...
Occasionally, I'll see people having trouble trying to for functions like or . Usually, it's coming from people who are trying to write p/invoke signatures, for p/invoke does a under the covers. Why can't you for these functions? Because they're not really functions. They're function-like macros: In fact, as you can see above is doubly a...
We're all in the same position. Since we work with computers all day, everybody in the extended family considers us the technical support department. One thing you all need to take away from your role as family technical support department is that normal people view computers completely differently from the way you and I do. One of my relatives ca...
