The Old New Thing

The case of the failed exchange of the vtable slot

April 29, 2022 Apr 29, 2022 04/29/22

Raymond Chen

Another application compatibility case.

What’s up with std::piecewise_construct and std::forward_as_tuple?

April 28, 2022 Apr 28, 2022 04/28/22

Raymond Chen

When you need to pass two sets of variadic parameters, and to work around other extremely weird edge cases.

How do I decode a #pragma detect_mismatch error?

April 27, 2022 Apr 27, 2022 04/27/22

Raymond Chen

The linker tells you a bunch of stuff. Here's what it means.

Be careful with that thing, it’s a confidential coffee maker

April 26, 2022 Apr 26, 2022 04/26/22

Raymond Chen

Just keep it under wraps.

How can I force a WriteFile or ReadFile to complete synchronously or hang, in order to test something?

April 25, 2022 Apr 25, 2022 04/25/22

Raymond Chen

You can use a named pipe.

Trying to create a factory that remembers the parameters to pass to another method

April 22, 2022 Apr 22, 2022 04/22/22

Raymond Chen

Lost in a twisty maze of universal references.

How do I access and customize the IInspectable methods of a Windows Runtime class written in C++/WinRT?

April 21, 2022 Apr 21, 2022 04/21/22

Raymond Chen

Special access methods, but normal overrides.

Class template argument deduction may be the new hotness, but we’ll always have maker functions

April 20, 2022 Apr 20, 2022 04/20/22

Raymond Chen

It's all or nothing, and sometimes you don't have all.

The Applesoft Compiler (TASC): We have the source code, in a sense

April 19, 2022 Apr 19, 2022 04/19/22

Raymond Chen

The desperation of programming under tight memory constraints.

The x86 architecture is the weirdo, part 2

April 18, 2022 Apr 18, 2022 04/18/22

Raymond Chen

It does everything differently, because of course it does.