The Old New Thing

On transferring or copying ABI pointers between smart pointers

September 8, 2023 Sep 8, 2023 09/8/23

Raymond Chen

Keep track of who owns the reference.

A freestanding JavaScript function that uses this is easily mistaken for a constructor

September 7, 2023 Sep 7, 2023 09/7/23

Raymond Chen

Because that's what constructors look like.

Detecting whether a tree-like data structure contains a cycle

September 6, 2023 Sep 6, 2023 09/6/23

Raymond Chen

Combining two things we already know.

When documentation cautions that something may not happen, that suggests that it normally does happen

September 5, 2023 Sep 5, 2023 09/5/23

Raymond Chen

Reading between the lines.

Just for fun: What happens when you shift a register by more than the register size?

September 4, 2023 Sep 4, 2023 09/4/23

Raymond Chen

A comparative study of processor architectures.

How do I find out more about the fail-fast exception that occurs when an exception in a PPL task goes unobserved?

September 1, 2023 Sep 1, 2023 09/1/23

Raymond Chen

Digging into the internals.

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.