The Old New Thing

The seasoned pianist’s guide to musical collaborators

April 30, 2018 Apr 30, 2018 04/30/18

Raymond Chen

What's it like working with others?

I don’t know how I managed to be presenting at the same conference as Dona Sarkar

April 30, 2018 Apr 30, 2018 04/30/18

Raymond Chen

Maybe if I hang out with her enough, some of the cool will rub off.

A cute hidden message in a image to entertain you while you wait

April 27, 2018 Apr 27, 2018 04/27/18

Raymond Chen

Pull out your handy decoder ring.

How can I have my program execute some code only if run from the Visual Studio debugger?

April 26, 2018 Apr 26, 2018 04/26/18

Raymond Chen

Let's look at the problem rather than the question.

Microspeak: Tented

April 25, 2018 Apr 25, 2018 04/25/18

Raymond Chen

No peeking into the tent.

It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway: Passing invalid parameters from kernel mode to another kernel-mode function corrupts the kernel (who knew?)

April 24, 2018 Apr 24, 2018 04/24/18

Raymond Chen

You're already deep on the other side.

The early history of redundant function pointer casts: MakeProcInstance

April 23, 2018 Apr 23, 2018 04/23/18

Raymond Chen

The generic function pointer.

The MIPS R4000, part 15: Code walkthrough

April 20, 2018 Apr 20, 2018 04/20/18

Raymond Chen

Let's look at some code.

The MIPS R4000, part 14: Common patterns

April 19, 2018 Apr 19, 2018 04/19/18

Raymond Chen

How to recognize different kinds of jumps and calls.

The MIPS R4000, part 13: Function prologues and epilogues

April 18, 2018 Apr 18, 2018 04/18/18

Raymond Chen

Keeping the unwinding bookkeeping straight.