Store-to-load forwarding.
Month: April 2017
Static hooking through predefinition
Creating your own hook points.
Why are there two incompatible ways of specifying a serial port baud rate?
Toto, I don’t think we’re on an IBM PC XT any more.
How do I kill a program that hung with an always-on-top fullscreen window?
Hey, look at that desktop over there.
Filtering the Browse for Folder dialog so it shows only drive letters
An exercise in filtering.
Application crash reported as security vulnerability, but you never crossed the airtight hatchway
A crash is not a priori a security vulnerability.
On generating sentinel pointer values in Windows
That’s not a pointer. This is a pointer.
Under what conditions could a commit of reserved memory fail?
Usually because you are out of memory, but really it’s when you’re out of commit.
That time a customer reported an error in the map used by Flight Simulator
But whose map is right?
Why does my __FILE__ macro produce an invalid address, which mysteriously becomes valid a few moments later?
It’s not there until somebody demands it.