The Old New Thing

Wait, you never said that I had to initialize the object before I used it!

August 23, 2012 Aug 23, 2012 08/23/12

Raymond Chen

A customer reported that they were having trouble creating slim reader/writer locks at runtime. They simplified the issue to a short program: "What is the correct way of creating an via the operator?" It wasn't long before somebody noted that nowhere in the code is the function called. "Oh, yeah, thanks for catching that. It looks ...