Showing results for December 2024 - The Old New Thing

The cycle completes.

Making sure the file and settings are set correctly.

The invisible UTF-8 BOM, and sometimes invisible encoding changes.

Combining SFINAE/requires, standard layout, and overload resolution.

Balancing multiple performance factors.

A customer asked if there was a helper function in the system that accepted two strings and reported whether the s they represent are equal. This is a tricky question, because you first have to decide what "represent" means. There are many ways of representing a as a string. It could be just 32 case-insensitive hexadecimal digits. Or maybe there...

Time-wasting.

You could do it, but it could cramp your style.

Use the FTA_AlwaysUnsafe edit flag.

There's a lock hiding inside the pointer.