The Old New Thing

On transferring or copying ABI pointers between smart pointers

September 8, 2023 Sep 8, 2023 09/8/23

Raymond Chen

Keep track of who owns the reference.

Detecting whether a tree-like data structure contains a cycle

September 6, 2023 Sep 6, 2023 09/6/23

Raymond Chen

Combining two things we already know.

How do I find out more about the fail-fast exception that occurs when an exception in a PPL task goes unobserved?

September 1, 2023 Sep 1, 2023 09/1/23

Raymond Chen

Digging into the internals.

Diagnosing a crash when trying to call ReadFile via language interop

August 31, 2023 Aug 31, 2023 08/31/23

Raymond Chen

Checking the signatures and inferring what could have gone wrong.

How can I programmatically obtain the value of the “Make text bigger” slider?

August 30, 2023 Aug 30, 2023 08/30/23

Raymond Chen

The text scale factor property.

On writing loops in continuation-passing style, part 4

August 25, 2023 Aug 25, 2023 08/25/23

Raymond Chen

Equivalents in C# and JavaScript.

On writing loops in PPL and continuation-passing style, part 3

August 24, 2023 Aug 24, 2023 08/24/23

Raymond Chen

Explicit shared state.

On writing loops in PPL and continuation-passing style, part 2

August 23, 2023 Aug 23, 2023 08/23/23

Raymond Chen

Recursion comes back.

On writing loops in PPL and continuation-passing style, part 1

August 22, 2023 Aug 22, 2023 08/22/23

Raymond Chen

Keeping track of what to do next.

Inside STL: The different types of shared pointer control blocks

August 21, 2023 Aug 21, 2023 08/21/23

Raymond Chen

Well, some of them, at least.