Nov 8, 2024 4 9 The case of a program that crashed on its first instruction Raymond Chen Didn't even make it out of the gate.
Nov 7, 2024 6 4 Why do I observe reads from a memory-mapped file when writing large blocks? Raymond Chen The CPU doesn't see the entire write at once.
Nov 6, 2024 1 1 How do I declare an operator overload for my Windows Runtime class? Raymond Chen That's not something expressible in the Windows Runtime.
Nov 5, 2024 6 2 What’s the difference between Display size and Screen size in the Windows 95 display control panel? Raymond Chen No meaningful difference, though others have created a difference.
Nov 4, 2024 4 2 On the limits of time travel in the face of undefined behavior in C Raymond Chen C imposes some constraints, but the principle is mostly still there.
Nov 1, 2024 8 4 On locale-aware substring matching, either case-sensitive or case-insensitive Raymond Chen It's surprisingly complicated, but fortunately, somebody has done it for you.
Oct 31, 2024 23 6 What has case distinction but is neither uppercase nor lowercase? Raymond Chen It has one foot in each world but belongs to neither.
Oct 30, 2024 0 2 I have enabled “take ownership” permission, but I still cannot obtain write access Raymond Chen Taking ownership is only one part of gaining write access.
Oct 29, 2024 0 1 Reverse-engineering what a “short” section is Raymond Chen The long and short of it all.
Oct 28, 2024 1 1 How useful is the hint passed to the std::unordered_… collections? Raymond Chen Only a little, or sometimes not at all.