Sep 11, 2019
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The sad history of the MFC TRY/CATCH macros
Because standard C++ exception handling didn't exist yet.
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The sad history of the MFC
Sep 10, 2019
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Trying to wrangle a site visit to Paul Allen’s superyacht “Octopus”
An unsuccessful play for a site visit.
Aug 30, 2019
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The sad history of Unicode printf-style format specifiers in Visual C++
Getting ahead of the standard, which went a different way.
Aug 28, 2019
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The sad history of Visual Studio’s custom __if_exists keyword
When times were simpler and bytes were precious.
Aug 27, 2019
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One byte used to cost a dollar
The cost of software distribution.
Aug 26, 2019
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Custom-printing your own attendee pass to the Windows 95 launch
Only the highest quality forgeries will do.
Aug 23, 2019
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The SuperH-3, part 15: Code walkthough
Taking this thing for a spin.
Aug 22, 2019
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The SuperH-3, part 14: Patterns for function calls
Different ways of setting up a function call.
Aug 21, 2019
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The SuperH-3, part 13: Misaligned data, and converting between signed vs unsigned values
Okay, now we're doing some programming.
Aug 20, 2019
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The SuperH-3, part 12: Calling convention and function prologues/epilogues
A typical RISC pattern.