Showing results for October 4, 2012 - The Old New Thing

A college classmate of mine informed me that one of his colleagues had planned his wedding so far in advance that on his negative-first anniversary (i.e., precisely one year before his anticipated wedding date), he gave paper to all of his friends. Said my classmate, "It's too bad that neither of us had been born on his −50th anniversary. ...

A customer reported that on Windows XP, they observed that their program would very rarely get the error when they passed two backslashes instead of one to the function: After removing C++ escapes, the resulting string passed to is The failure was very sporadic and not reproducible under controlled conditions. Well, first of all, d...