The Old New Thing

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

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

Raymond Chen

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

What to do if you can’t get the stovetop in your London apartment to turn on

August 29, 2019 Aug 29, 2019 08/29/19

Raymond Chen

Look for an apparently-useless switch.

On resolving the type vs member conflict in C++, revisited

August 29, 2019 Aug 29, 2019 08/29/19

Raymond Chen

Filling in some gaps in the previous discussion.

The sad history of Visual Studio’s custom __if_exists keyword

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

Raymond Chen

When times were simpler and bytes were precious.

One byte used to cost a dollar

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

Raymond Chen

The cost of software distribution.

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

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

Raymond Chen

Only the highest quality forgeries will do.

The SuperH-3, part 15: Code walkthough

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

Raymond Chen

Taking this thing for a spin.

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

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

Raymond Chen

Different ways of setting up a function call.

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

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

Raymond Chen

Okay, now we're doing some programming.

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

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

Raymond Chen

A typical RISC pattern.