The Hacks of Life

Ever wonder how the STL list works in GCC? What? No? You haven't? Where's your sense of curiousity about the way your code works? ...

We're trying to answer the question: why did X-Plane run out of memory? To answer that, we need to look at the contents of virtual memo...

So you're minding your own business when you come across a gem like this: typedef enum __MIDL___MIDL_itf_qnetwork_0082_0001 { AM_EXSEE...

...stupid code is slower. In a performance tuning situation, sometimes you have to figure out: Is the problem that I'm not doing each op...

I have a tree-view (think like the tree of files in an Explorer or a Finder window). Since all of my rows are based on objects with integer...

I have a set of abstract interfaces that go something like this: class IPoint { public: virtual void SetLocation(const Point2& location)...

I discovered WinDbg about a year ago and have found it to be the most powerful and complete debugger available for Windows PCs. Unfortunatel...