The Old New Thing

Why does a single integer assignment statement consume all of my CPU?

January 16, 2015 Jan 16, 2015 01/16/15

Raymond Chen

Alignment fixups.

Why does CreateFile take a long time on a volume handle?

January 15, 2015 Jan 15, 2015 01/15/15

Raymond Chen

Flush that volume.

Where can I find the standard asynchronous stream?

January 14, 2015 Jan 14, 2015 01/14/15

Raymond Chen

Not that sense of the word standard.

Limiting the bottom byte of an XMM register and clearing the other bytes

January 12, 2015 Jan 12, 2015 01/12/15

Raymond Chen

More SSE tweaking.

What happens if I don't pass a pCreateExParams to CreateFile2?

January 8, 2015 Jan 8, 2015 01/8/15

Raymond Chen

The final parameter to the function is optional. What happens if I pass ? If you pass as the parameter, then the function behaves as if you had passed a pointer to this structure...