The Old New Thing

Inside C++/WinRT: Apartment switching: Unwinding the stack

January 27, 2023 Jan 27, 2023 01/27/23

Raymond Chen

Reducing stack usage.

Inside C++/WinRT: Apartment switching: Bypassing the context callback

January 26, 2023 Jan 26, 2023 01/26/23

Raymond Chen

Reducing stack usage.

Inside C++/WinRT: Apartment switching: Unblocking the outgoing thread

January 25, 2023 Jan 25, 2023 01/25/23

Raymond Chen

Avoiding the problem of the synchronous apartment-changing callback: Let the outgoing thread do whatever it wants to do next.

Inside C++/WinRT: Apartment switching: The basic idea

January 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023 01/24/23

Raymond Chen

Getting back to where you started.

Inside C++/WinRT: Coroutine completions: The oversimplified version

January 23, 2023 Jan 23, 2023 01/23/23

Raymond Chen

Resuming the coroutine when the asynchronous work completes.

Windows Runtime asynchronous operations can fail in two different ways, so make sure you get them both

January 19, 2023 Jan 19, 2023 01/19/23

Raymond Chen

Fail me now or fail me later.

Making C++ primitive types meaningfully movable when they have sentinel values

January 16, 2023 Jan 16, 2023 01/16/23

Raymond Chen

The value actually moves now.

How should I interpret the various values of NLM_CONNECTIVITY?

January 12, 2023 Jan 12, 2023 01/12/23

Raymond Chen

Different levels of connectedness.

What does it mean when I get a mismatch from MSVC for _COROUTINE_ABI?

January 11, 2023 Jan 11, 2023 01/11/23

Raymond Chen

The two different kinds of coroutine interfaces shouldn't be mixed and matched.

On leading underscores and names reserved by the C and C++ languages

January 9, 2023 Jan 9, 2023 01/9/23

Raymond Chen

The rules laid out.