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re: Debug session: Why is an LPC server not responding?
[The only way to "unhang" the process is to terminate it, at which point it's too late to generate the crash report. WER can't generate the report until the user gives permission, because generating...
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re: I speak German better in my dream than I do in real life
Don't mix up "Nachtisch" with "Nachttisch" - note the double 't' Nachtisch --> desertNachttisch --> bed table (translated word by word: "night table")Nice ;)
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re: Microspeak: bubble up
Bubbles rise all the way to the top, are mostly ignored until eventually they pop and just disappear entirely. So, exactly like management reports then.
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re: Display control buttons on your taskbar preview window
I don't understand. My progam never seems to receive the TaskbarButtonCreated message (nor any other Register'd message)... And I'm on Windows 7.[Methinks the fault, dear Brutus, is not in the stars....
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re: You can ask the compiler to answer your calling convention questions
Now the correct question is what does a COM library do as an internal call can ignore calling conventions. Same procedure to answer.
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re: You can ask the compiler to answer your calling convention questions
I love it when people proactively answer their own questions like this even when it's not the whole story -- and then fixate on the answer. When you get around to convincing them that what they're...
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re: You can ask the compiler to answer your calling convention questions
That's all very nice when you already have the compiler sitting there somewhere in the PATH eagerly waiting to be run.Up until Visual Studio 2005, there was no express edition. You could dig a cl.exe...
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re: You can ask the compiler to answer your calling convention questions
[Up until Visual Studio 2005, there was no express edition. You could dig a cl.exe from specific SDK versions. Now, you need the express edition for the compiler, as the newer SDKs are no longer packed...
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re: Display control buttons on your taskbar preview window
Well, I think people deserve to know the end of the story: Problems (message not received, button not sending the command) occur when running the application as an administrator. Or doing so...
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re: You can ask the compiler to answer your calling convention questions
Well, we've only tested one variant of the rules. When I would ask a question like this, I would expect all the ifs, ands, and buts to come as part of the reply. Why should I have to reverse engineer...
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re: You can ask the compiler to answer your calling convention questions
@Jasper It's not Raymond's job to provide on-demand training (at least, I'm pretty certain it's not). If people want to know how it behaves, they can poke it or look up the documentation like everyone...
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re: You can ask the compiler to answer your calling convention questions
This is expected, if you remember that the calling conventions are supposed to allow pseudo-member function call from C (for COM compatibility). For this reason, 'this' pointer takes place of the first...
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re: You can ask the compiler to answer your calling convention questions
Way back in the olden days, I used to write quite a bit of S/360 Assembler. One of the great things about OS/360 and its follow-ons was that the calling conventions were very consistant and very well...
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re: You can ask the compiler to answer your calling convention questions
@algr1: Aren't you arguing that the calling convention Raymond shows here is UNEXPECTED? As shown by the assembler, the invisible return struct pointer goes BETWEEN the "this" pointer and the first...
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re: You can ask the compiler to answer your calling convention questions
@Rushyo, what if the documentation is not enough or is incomplete? What if you really need to know all about calling conventions, because, say, you're developing a compiler (no matter the language)?...
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re: You can ask the compiler to answer your calling convention questions
@John Doe: I think we must distinguish between at least kinds of information sources here. In order of decreasing utility: (1) An authoritative spec that Microsoft (or whichever vendor we're talking...
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re: Display control buttons on your taskbar preview window
[Methinks the fault, dear Brutus, is not in the stars. -Raymond]Methinks the Raymond is well-read.
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re: I speak German better in my dream than I do in real life
From the south-west here (Rhineland palatinate):We always say Nachtisch.
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re: I speak German better in my dream than I do in real life
Tosal: Don't mix up "desert" with "dessert" -- note the double 's'.desert --> area of land with very little raindessert --> sweet part at the end of a meal.;)
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re: You can ask the compiler to answer your calling convention questions
Yes, the answer you get will be correct (for today). How does this square with Microsoft being forced to spend a lot of money on compatibility hacks to accomodate software vendors who "figured out how...
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