The Old New Thing

What’s the difference between throwing a winrt::hresult_error and using winrt::throw_hresult?

July 16, 2021 Jul 16, 2021 07/16/21

Raymond Chen

It affects the error origination.

On proper handling of buffers in COM and RPC methods

July 15, 2021 Jul 15, 2021 07/15/21

Raymond Chen

The RPC layer deals with most of the problems for you, assuming you're using the RPC layer.

How to perform more complicated search and replace-style renaming in a batch file

July 14, 2021 Jul 14, 2021 07/14/21

Raymond Chen

Try something other than wildcards.

How did copying and renaming with wildcards work in MS-DOS?

July 13, 2021 Jul 13, 2021 07/13/21

Raymond Chen

By lining up two parallel arrays.

Why do smart pointers null out the wrapped pointer before destroying it?

July 12, 2021 Jul 12, 2021 07/12/21

Raymond Chen

It's not a race condition, but it's some condition.

On the perils of holding a lock across a coroutine suspension point, part 3: Solutions

July 9, 2021 Jul 9, 2021 07/9/21

Raymond Chen

How to avoid the trap.

On the perils of holding a lock across a coroutine suspension point, part 2: Nonrecursive mutexes

July 8, 2021 Jul 8, 2021 07/8/21

Raymond Chen

Another way things can go wrong.

On the perils of holding a lock across a coroutine suspension point, part 1: The set-up

July 7, 2021 Jul 7, 2021 07/7/21

Raymond Chen

One way things can go wrong.

How to act like you know Chinese even though you don’t, episode 2

July 6, 2021 Jul 6, 2021 07/6/21

Raymond Chen

Find the magic word.

What happens if I use a squash instead of a true merge when performing one of the git tricks?

July 6, 2021 Jul 6, 2021 07/6/21

Raymond Chen

In many cases, the merge is where the magic is.