The Old New Thing

Diagnosing a crash when trying to call ReadFile via language interop

August 31, 2023 Aug 31, 2023 08/31/23

Raymond Chen

Checking the signatures and inferring what could have gone wrong.

How can I programmatically obtain the value of the “Make text bigger” slider?

August 30, 2023 Aug 30, 2023 08/30/23

Raymond Chen

The text scale factor property.

The popularity of DOS/4GW made Windows 95 game compatibility a little easier, but with higher stakes

August 29, 2023 Aug 29, 2023 08/29/23

Raymond Chen

A popular path to protected mode.

Just for fun: Which processors prefer sign-extended loads, and which prefer zero-extended loads?

August 28, 2023 Aug 28, 2023 08/28/23

Raymond Chen

Another pointless chart.

On writing loops in continuation-passing style, part 4

August 25, 2023 Aug 25, 2023 08/25/23

Raymond Chen

Equivalents in C# and JavaScript.

On writing loops in PPL and continuation-passing style, part 3

August 24, 2023 Aug 24, 2023 08/24/23

Raymond Chen

Explicit shared state.

On writing loops in PPL and continuation-passing style, part 2

August 23, 2023 Aug 23, 2023 08/23/23

Raymond Chen

Recursion comes back.

On writing loops in PPL and continuation-passing style, part 1

August 22, 2023 Aug 22, 2023 08/22/23

Raymond Chen

Keeping track of what to do next.

Inside STL: The different types of shared pointer control blocks

August 21, 2023 Aug 21, 2023 08/21/23

Raymond Chen

Well, some of them, at least.

Phantom and indulgent shared pointers

August 18, 2023 Aug 18, 2023 08/18/23

Raymond Chen

The phantom controls something yet holds nothing. The indulgent holds something but controls nothing.