The Old New Thing

Why am I getting an unhandled exception from my C++ function that catches all exceptions?

February 23, 2023 Feb 23, 2023 02/23/23

Raymond Chen

Yes, you caught an exception. But that's not the one that went unhandled.

Avoiding the redundancy of adding the object files to both the primary project and its unit test

February 22, 2023 Feb 22, 2023 02/22/23

Raymond Chen

Adding another level of indirection.

The case of the mysterious "out of bounds" error from CreateUri and memmove

February 20, 2023 Feb 20, 2023 02/20/23

Raymond Chen

Unfolding some COMDATs.

What happens if you co_await a std::future, and why is it a bad idea?

February 17, 2023 Feb 17, 2023 02/17/23

Raymond Chen

Just waiting for something to finish.

What does it mean when my cross-thread COM call fails with RPC_E_SYS_CALL_FAILED?

February 16, 2023 Feb 16, 2023 02/16/23

Raymond Chen

Look for an unresponsive recipient.

What are the potentially-erroneous results if you don’t pass NULL as the lpNumberOfBytesRead when issuing overlapped I/O?

February 15, 2023 Feb 15, 2023 02/15/23

Raymond Chen

It's to avoid a self-inflicted race condition.

Adventures in application compatibility: The case of the display control panel crash on exit

February 13, 2023 Feb 13, 2023 02/13/23

Raymond Chen

When you get a 64-bit pointer, you probably should remember all 64 of the bits.

The case of the RPC_E_DISCONNECTED error thrown from await_resume

February 10, 2023 Feb 10, 2023 02/10/23

Raymond Chen

You can keep trying, but the result won't change.

A more direct and mistake-free way of creating a process in a job object

February 9, 2023 Feb 9, 2023 02/9/23

Raymond Chen

A new attribute for creating a process directly in a job object.

How can I get the original target of a shortcut without applying any 32-bit adjustments?

February 8, 2023 Feb 8, 2023 02/8/23

Raymond Chen

Disable the fancy tracking.