If you're just going to sit there doing nothing, at least do nothing correctly(devblogs.microsoft.com)

364 points by AndrewDucker 2 years ago | 271 comments

Raymond Chen's Old New Thing blog post on how to implement no-op API stubs correctly, using Windows printing APIs on Xbox as an example.

Subroutine calls in the ancient world, before computers had stacks or heaps(devblogs.microsoft.com)

429 points by signa11 2 years ago | 195 comments

Raymond Chen's The Old New Thing blog post explaining how early computers performed subroutine calls before they had stacks or heaps.

What is a hard error, and what makes it harder than an easy error?(devblogs.microsoft.com)

77 points by luu 2 years ago | 36 comments

C++17 creates a practical use of the backward array index operator(devblogs.microsoft.com)

77 points by nikbackm 3 years ago | 21 comments

The mysterious second parameter to the x86 ENTER instruction(devblogs.microsoft.com)

130 points by matt_d 2 years ago | 36 comments

The outside investigation of SoftRAM 95 (2021)(devblogs.microsoft.com)

83 points by userbinator 3 years ago | 38 comments