May 19, 2017 Post comments count0 Post likes count1 Debugging a GDI resource leak: Case study Raymond Chen If it leaked once, it'll leak again.
May 12, 2017 Post comments count0 Post likes count1 A question about avoiding page faults the first time newly-allocated memory is accessed Raymond Chen What are you trying to optimize?
May 11, 2017 Post comments count0 Post likes count1 How to calculate the resulting security descriptor of a child object without creating it Raymond Chen Pretend that it's a private object.
May 10, 2017 Post comments count0 Post likes count1 Revised notes on the reliability of FlushFileBuffers Raymond Chen A check-in on what's happened over the past few years.
May 8, 2017 Post comments count0 Post likes count1 Couldn’t we fix the lackey catastrophe by using #pragma init_seg(user)? Raymond Chen That doesn't help, for more than one reason.
May 5, 2017 Post comments count0 Post likes count1 Remember that in a stack trace, the addresses are return addresses, not call addresses Raymond Chen It's where the function is going to return to, not where it came from.
May 4, 2017 Post comments count0 Post likes count1 The interaction between AppBars and Windows 10 virtual desktops Raymond Chen They apply to all virtual desktops.
May 3, 2017 Post comments count0 Post likes count1 Why don’t I get thumbnails for files that are marked offline? Raymond Chen Because offline files are assumed to be expensive to access.
May 1, 2017 Post comments count0 Post likes count1 Why doesn’t SHGetFileInfo give me customized folder icons? Raymond Chen Because you asked for it that way.
Apr 28, 2017 Post comments count0 Post likes count2 Why does the compiler generate memory operations on the full variable even though only one byte is involved? Raymond Chen Store-to-load forwarding.