Jan 18, 2019
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How do I get the effect of C#’s async void in a C++ coroutine? Part 3: Simplifying the boilerplate
Factoring it out.
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Jan 17, 2019
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How do I get the effect of C#’s async void in a C++ coroutine? Part 2: Keeping track of the lifetimes
There are two types of lambdas you have to write, so why not write two lambdas?
Jan 16, 2019
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How do I get the effect of C#’s async void in a C++ coroutine? Part 1: Why does the obvious solution crash?
Wrap it up, but watch out how you do it.
Jan 15, 2019
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Don’t pass lambdas (or other multi-line entities) as parameters to macros
It makes debugging much more difficult.
Jan 14, 2019
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Why would the incremental linker insert padding between section fragments?
So it can be incremental more easily.
Jan 11, 2019
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Why do we even need to define a red zone? Can’t I just use my stack for anything?
I mean, it's my stack, isn't it?
Jan 10, 2019
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Why am I getting mojibake when I try to create a window?
Look for the character set mismatch.
Jan 9, 2019
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It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway: Messing with somebody’s registry
Getting to the other side is left as an exercise.
Jan 8, 2019
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STATUS_STACK_BUFFER_OVERRUN doesn’t mean that there was a stack buffer overrun
It used to mean that, but now it can mean other things, too.
Jan 7, 2019
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The GetRegionData function fails if the buffer is allocated on the stack. Is it allergic to stack memory or something?
One of the lesser-known ground rules.