The Old New Thing
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
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A brief and incomplete comparison of memory corruption detection tools
A short overview, definitely incomplete.
Memory corruption from outside the process looks like space aliens
The write isn't visible to your process, just the effect of the write.
Be mindful of temporal terms in documents: What is the reference point in time?
What is your implied point in time for the reference?
Why is there a bulge on my bicycle tire when I inflate it?
Get the order of operations right.
Why doesn’t the Windows blue screen of death prominently identify the company that created the driver that crashed?
Because the driver that crashed may not be the one at fault.
Reminder: When a C++ object fails to construct, the destructor does not run
If you need to run after a failed construction, you have to put it in a base class or member variable.
The case of the crash when trying to erase an element from a std::set
Another kind of fiasco.
In a C++ class template specialization, how can I call the unspecialized version of a method?
You can't talk about things that might exist, so instead talk about things that do.
How does GetUserDefaultGeoName choose between ISO 3166-1 and UN M.49 codes?
Clarifying the behavior.