The sad history of Unicode printf-style format specifiers in Visual C++
August 30, 2019Aug 30, 201908/30/19Getting ahead of the standard, which went a different way.
August 30, 2019Aug 30, 201908/30/19August 30, 2019Aug 30, 201908/30/19What to do if you can’t get the stovetop in your London apartment to turn on
August 29, 2019Aug 29, 201908/29/19Look for an apparently-useless switch.
On resolving the type vs member conflict in C++, revisited
August 29, 2019Aug 29, 201908/29/19 Filling in some gaps in the previous discussion.
The sad history of Visual Studio’s custom __if_exists keyword
August 28, 2019Aug 28, 201908/28/19When times were simpler and bytes were precious.
One byte used to cost a dollar
August 27, 2019Aug 27, 201908/27/19The cost of software distribution.
Custom-printing your own attendee pass to the Windows 95 launch
August 26, 2019Aug 26, 201908/26/19Only the highest quality forgeries will do.
The SuperH-3, part 15: Code walkthough
August 23, 2019Aug 23, 201908/23/19Taking this thing for a spin.
The SuperH-3, part 14: Patterns for function calls
August 22, 2019Aug 22, 201908/22/19Different ways of setting up a function call.
The SuperH-3, part 13: Misaligned data, and converting between signed vs unsigned values
August 21, 2019Aug 21, 201908/21/19Okay, now we're doing some programming.
The SuperH-3, part 12: Calling convention and function prologues/epilogues
August 20, 2019Aug 20, 201908/20/19A typical RISC pattern.