The Old New Thing

Tree-walking algorithms: Incrementally enumerating leaf nodes of an N-ary tree

January 6, 2020 Jan 6, 2020 01/6/20

Raymond Chen

Stop to rest when you turn.

Anybody who writes #pragma pack(1) may as well just wear a sign on their forehead that says “I hate RISC”

January 3, 2020 Jan 3, 2020 01/3/20

Raymond Chen

Alignment as well as padding.

Why doesn’t RegSetKeySecurity propagate inheritable ACEs, but SetSecurityInfo does?

January 2, 2020 Jan 2, 2020 01/2/20

Raymond Chen

An artifact of the timeline.

Nasty gotcha: Positioning your window beneath a topmost window makes it topmost

January 1, 2020 Jan 1, 2020 01/1/20

Raymond Chen

Picking up properties unintentionally.