The Old New Thing
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
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Jan 25, 2018
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How can I reserve a range of address space and create nonzero memory on demand when the program reads or writes a page in the range?
Swizzle me this.
Jan 24, 2018
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How can I reserve a range of address space and receive notifications when the program first reads or writes a page in the range?
Be in the exception handler chain.
Jan 23, 2018
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Microspeak: Impedance mismatch
Any kind of mismatch, really.
Jan 22, 2018
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The history of change-packing tools at Microsoft (so far)
They all say "pack" for one reason or another.
Jan 19, 2018
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A helper template function to wait for a Win32 condition variable in a loop
Another case of the spurious wake-up.
Jan 18, 2018
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Stuff my father-in-law says: On taking the train
A five-minute tour.
Jan 18, 2018
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A helper template function to wait for WaitOnAddress in a loop
Because this is what you always have to do.
Jan 17, 2018
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Why does HRESULT begin with H when it’s not a handle to anything?
Well, it used to be a handle.
Jan 16, 2018
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As far as the French government is concerned, I am the expert on Windows XP
At least it's my name on the paperwork.