Sep 30, 2022 Post comments count1 Post likes count0 Debugging coroutine handles: Looking for the source of a one-byte memory corruption Raymond Chen Applying what we know about coroutines.
Sep 29, 2022 Post comments count1 Post likes count0 I did that merge-as-cherry-pick thing, but my change still didn’t merge correctly Raymond Chen A case study of what goes wrong.
Sep 28, 2022 Post comments count2 Post likes count5 Why does COM express GUIDs in a mix of big-endian and little-endian? Why can’t it just pick a side and stick with it? Raymond Chen Oh, it does pick a side. It's just that some dashes are missing.
Sep 27, 2022 Post comments count1 Post likes count1 Microspeak: Break glass Raymond Chen Metaphorically breaking the glass in case of emergency.
Sep 26, 2022 Post comments count3 Post likes count0 What does the C++ error “A pointer to a bound function may only be used to call the function” mean? Raymond Chen You got all set to call a function but forgot to call it.
Sep 23, 2022 Post comments count1 Post likes count0 Why am I receiving SHCNE_UPDATEDIR notifications that my code never generates? Raymond Chen You did generate them, indirectly.
Sep 22, 2022 Post comments count0 Post likes count0 How can I get WRL to link my object into its activation factory? Raymond Chen More magic macros.
Sep 21, 2022 Post comments count3 Post likes count4 How can I trigger a recalc of the mouse cursor after I changed some of my internal application state? Raymond Chen Go through the standard process one more time.
Sep 20, 2022 Post comments count8 Post likes count2 Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers, follow-up Raymond Chen Deeper speculation by others.
Sep 19, 2022 Post comments count11 Post likes count2 Why load fs:[0x18] into a register and then dereference that, instead of just going for fs:[n] directly? Raymond Chen Simplifying the compiler.