The sad history of the MFC TRY/CATCH macros

Raymond ChenSeptember 11, 2019Sep 11, 201909/11/19

Because standard C++ exception handling didn't exist yet.

Trying to wrangle a site visit to Paul Allen’s superyacht “Octopus”

Raymond ChenSeptember 10, 2019Sep 10, 201909/10/19

An unsuccessful play for a site visit.

The sad history of Unicode printf-style format specifiers in Visual C++

Raymond ChenAugust 30, 2019Aug 30, 201908/30/19

Getting ahead of the standard, which went a different way.

The sad history of Visual Studio’s custom __if_exists keyword

Raymond ChenAugust 28, 2019Aug 28, 201908/28/19

When times were simpler and bytes were precious.

One byte used to cost a dollar

Raymond ChenAugust 27, 2019Aug 27, 201908/27/19

The cost of software distribution.

Custom-printing your own attendee pass to the Windows 95 launch

Raymond ChenAugust 26, 2019Aug 26, 201908/26/19

Only the highest quality forgeries will do.

The SuperH-3, part 15: Code walkthough

Raymond ChenAugust 23, 2019Aug 23, 201908/23/19

Taking this thing for a spin.

The SuperH-3, part 14: Patterns for function calls

Raymond ChenAugust 22, 2019Aug 22, 201908/22/19

Different ways of setting up a function call.

The SuperH-3, part 13: Misaligned data, and converting between signed vs unsigned values

Raymond ChenAugust 21, 2019Aug 21, 201908/21/19

Okay, now we're doing some programming.

The SuperH-3, part 12: Calling convention and function prologues/epilogues

Raymond ChenAugust 20, 2019Aug 20, 201908/20/19

A typical RISC pattern.