The Old New Thing

What does the /ALTERNATENAME linker switch do?

July 31, 2020 Jul 31, 2020 07/31/20

Raymond Chen

In case of emergency, go look for something else.

What’s the deal with OLDNAMES.LIB?

July 30, 2020 Jul 30, 2020 07/30/20

Raymond Chen

For backward compatibility with pre-standard C.

C++/WinRT gotcha: Setting properties incorrectly

July 29, 2020 Jul 29, 2020 07/29/20

Raymond Chen

A bit too much search/replace during porting.

A look back at memory models in 16-bit MS-DOS

July 28, 2020 Jul 28, 2020 07/28/20

Raymond Chen

Ways of dealing with the fractured address space.

How do I set multiple items to a Windows Runtime vector in a single call?

July 27, 2020 Jul 27, 2020 07/27/20

Raymond Chen

It depends on the language projection.

C++/WinRT doesn’t let your coroutine cheat death, but it does get to say good-bye

July 24, 2020 Jul 24, 2020 07/24/20

Raymond Chen

Some manual cleanup.

How to get your C++/WinRT asynchronous operations to respond more quickly to cancellation, part 2

July 23, 2020 Jul 23, 2020 07/23/20

Raymond Chen

You can also take more proactive steps.

How to get your C++/WinRT asynchronous operations to respond more quickly to cancellation, part 1

July 22, 2020 Jul 22, 2020 07/22/20

Raymond Chen

Well, one way is to poll for it.

Deconstructing function pointers in a C++ template, returning to enable_if

July 21, 2020 Jul 21, 2020 07/21/20

Raymond Chen

Going back to the old standby to filter out unwanted specializations.

Deconstructing function pointers in a C++ template, addressing the calling convention conundrum

July 20, 2020 Jul 20, 2020 07/20/20

Raymond Chen

Finding a template metaprogramming trick that works.