The Old New Thing

How can I have a C++ function that returns different types depending on what the caller wants?

November 6, 2019 Nov 6, 2019 11/6/19

Raymond Chen

Quantum superposition comes to C++.

The legend of Steve Ballmer’s rental car, the most diligent employee in the world

November 5, 2019 Nov 5, 2019 11/5/19

Raymond Chen

What a hardworking new employee that must be.

I tried to adjust the time on my alarm clock. I failed.

November 4, 2019 Nov 4, 2019 11/4/19

Raymond Chen

Now it's not even wrong twice a day.

What happened if you tried to access a network file bigger than 2GB from MS-DOS?

November 4, 2019 Nov 4, 2019 11/4/19

Raymond Chen

What a strange world you live in.

Why does my program crash if I terminate a thread that is waiting to enter a critical section? It never got the critical section, so who cares?

November 1, 2019 Nov 1, 2019 11/1/19

Raymond Chen

But we care that it's still waiting.