Learn about a dissasembly view of function calls, and decipher the __thiscall calling convention.
Function Calls, Part 4 (What Exactly Is "this"?)
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Function Calls, Part 3 (Frame Pointer and Local Variables)
Published 02/05/2008
Explore a dissasembly view of function calls, including organization of the stack for local variables and the concept of stack frames and frame pointers.
Function Calls, Part 2 (Stack and Calling Conventions)
Published 01/23/2008
Read a dissasembly view of function calls, explaining organization of the stack and the behavior in the context of different calling conventions.
Function Calls, Part 1 (the Basics)
Published 01/11/2008
Begin a journey into the inner workings of how function calls work on x86 platforms,
Function Static Variables in Multi-Threaded Environments
Published 11/30/2006
Read a quick review of the dangers surrounding static variables in multi-threaded and potentially multi-core/CPU environments.
Thunking in Win32
Published 10/03/2006
Learn about an approach to creating thunks/trampolines to non-static member functions in 32-bit VC++.
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MFC Integration with the Windows Transactional File System (TxF)
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The original release of the .NET Framework included collections as .NET was introduced to the Microsoft programming world. The .NET Framework 2.0 introduced generics to complement the System.Collections namespace and provide a more efficient and well performing option. Read on to learn more...
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