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How do I inform Windows that I’m writing a binary file?

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Developing a cross-process reader/writer lock with limited readers, part 4: Abandonment

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Developing a cross-process reader/writer lock with limited readers, part 3: Fairness

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Developing a cross-process reader/writer lock with limited readers, part 2: Taking turns when being grabby

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Developing a cross-process reader/writer lock with limited readers, part 1: A semaphore

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Looking at consequences of passing too few register parameters to a C function on various architectures

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Defending against exceptions in a scope_exit RAII type

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Another crash caused by uninstaller code injection into Explorer

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Mapping the page tables into memory via the page tables

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Sure, xor’ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out, but why not sub?

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How did code handle 24-bit-per-pixel formats when using video cards with bank-switched memory?

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Forgotten message from the past: LB_INIT­STORAGE

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What’s up with window message 0x0091? We’re getting it with unexpected parameters

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Why is there a long delay between a thread exiting and the Wait­For­Single­Object returning?

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Why was there a red telephone at every receptionist desk?

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Finding a duplicated item in an array of N integers in the range 1 to N − 1

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How do you add or remove a handle from an active Wait­For­Multiple­Objects?, part 2

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How do you add or remove a handle from an active Wait­For­Multiple­Objects?

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How do you add or remove a handle from an active Msg­Wait­For­Multiple­Objects?

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Were there any Windows 3.1 programs that were so incompatible with Windows 95 that there was no point trying to patch them?

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