Aug 26, 2016
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Spurious wakes, race conditions, and bogus FIFO claims: A peek behind the curtain of WaitOnAddress
Watch the gears turn.
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Aug 25, 2016
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Implementing a critical section in terms of WaitOnAddress
Building things out of other things.
Aug 24, 2016
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Implementing a synchronization barrier in terms of WaitOnAddress
Kicking the tires by building another kind of tire.
Aug 23, 2016
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WaitOnAddress lets you create a synchronization object out of any data variable, even a byte
Pick a byte, any byte.
Aug 19, 2016
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Is it okay to call TryAcquireSRWLock from a thread that has already acquired the lock?
No.
Aug 18, 2016
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If I have a modeless dialog box with custom accelerators, which should I call first: IsDialogMessage or TranslateAccelerator
Only one way works.
Aug 17, 2016
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On installing a custom unhandled exception filter and intentionally raising an exception to get its attention
Mind those stack frames.
Aug 15, 2016
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How can I debug a function that has been subjected to COMDAT folding?
The easy way is to mutate the function.
Aug 12, 2016
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On the importance of making sure WaitForInputIdle doesn’t think you’re idle, episode 2
WaitForInputIdle is how the shell knows that your DDE server.
Aug 11, 2016
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On the importance of making sure WaitForInputIdle doesn’t think you’re idle, episode 1
WaitForInputIdle is how the shell knows that your DDE server.