The sad history of Unicode printf-style format specifiers in Visual C++

Raymond Chen August 30, 2019 Aug 30, 2019 08/30/19

Getting ahead of the standard, which went a different way.

The sad history of Visual Studio’s custom __if_exists keyword

Raymond Chen August 28, 2019 Aug 28, 2019 08/28/19

When times were simpler and bytes were precious.

One byte used to cost a dollar

Raymond Chen August 27, 2019 Aug 27, 2019 08/27/19

The cost of software distribution.

Custom-printing your own attendee pass to the Windows 95 launch

Raymond Chen August 26, 2019 Aug 26, 2019 08/26/19

Only the highest quality forgeries will do.

The SuperH-3, part 15: Code walkthough

Raymond Chen August 23, 2019 Aug 23, 2019 08/23/19

Taking this thing for a spin.

The SuperH-3, part 14: Patterns for function calls

Raymond Chen August 22, 2019 Aug 22, 2019 08/22/19

Different ways of setting up a function call.

The SuperH-3, part 13: Misaligned data, and converting between signed vs unsigned values

Raymond Chen August 21, 2019 Aug 21, 2019 08/21/19

Okay, now we're doing some programming.

The SuperH-3, part 12: Calling convention and function prologues/epilogues

Raymond Chen August 20, 2019 Aug 20, 2019 08/20/19

A typical RISC pattern.