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It had one job.

A simplified execution environment means fewer things that you can stumble over.

If it didn't go through the input system, it only looks like input as much as the app allows itself to be fooled.

A customer encountered a hang caused by COM not pumping messages while waiting for a cross-thread operation to complete. They were using the class for serializing asynchronous operations on a UI thread they created to handle accessibility callbacks. The hang stack looked like this: We see that we have a UI thread (notice the at the bottom of...

You can ask for it as an option, but think about what you're actually protecting against.

They do not have thread affinity.

You can clean it up the ABI way, whatever that is.

Make somebody else do it, and then use copy elision.

Check how you registered your event handler.

Using a well-known location instead of copying frame pointers.