// Oprogramowanie Roman Ryltsov
I just read a post on frame pointer omission (FPO) optimization, also known as /Oy compiler flag. And a comment from Vladimir Scherbina on problems getting the feature actually work. I wondered if there has been any improvement with a Visual Studio .NET 2008 SP1. latest compiler from Microsoft and briefly – the result is…
Microsoft C++ compiler offers a buffer security check option since quite a long ago. It adds so called “security cookies” onto stack and checks them to be not modified by code in order to early-detect stack buffer overflow conditions. The compiler option /GS is enabled by default in Release configurations and is not applicable to…
It is amazing how bugs go through versions and years. Visual Studio’s IDE dockable windows framework is cool, no doubt. But it was since 2005, if not earlier, that tool window undocked by a double click while application is running (debugging session active) is brought to wrong position and is tending to go out of…
The other day I “wrote some code” to workaround an extremely stupid hardware issues. The depth of idiocy is just incredible: to release a bunch of hardware that just don’t work, release a number of firmware updates that just don’t fix the simplest thing: HTTP compatibility. If there was a single little try to see…
It is amazing how it might come that Microsoft Forums‘ RSS feed appears broken on Google Reader with duplicated entries for each of the items. Regardless of whose the bug is, it seems to me that it is the Microsoft’s one, both are sophisticated applications of a large scale while RSS thing is just nothing…
It seems that everything is buggy nowadays. Some things – more buggy, some are less. I did not expect Microsoft Forums website to be so… so… of so improper quality. Especially compared to variety of popular forum software, free phpbb, google news etc. MS WYSIWYG post editor can stand no criticism at all, it is…
Version 2008 (9.0) of Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2008 Service Pack 1 development environment brings new annoyances in. It seems to be still freezing and crashing on certain source code files, just as previous versions did and additionally there is a new trick in: A termination of debugged application quite often ends up with a…