// 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…
A simple question being asked all over again. Given IBasicVideo, IBasicVideo2, IVMRWindowlessControl or IVMRWindowlessControl9, how to save image to file? It is easy. It is a bit easier with IBasicVideo because it is possible to query this interface directly from graph’s interface, such as IGraphBuilder, and the call will be forwarded to video renderer. This…
This seems to be undocumented (Google does not know anything on this): ATL server executables may be run with /RegServerPerUser and /UnregServerPerUser switches to hopefully (this what would expect this to do without checking) register contained COM classes under HKEY_CURRENT_USER rather than HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and thus allow COM server run under credentials of non-administrative user. See…
I am compiling C++ project which is using IJG JPEG library using Visual Studio .NET 2005 (yes, 2008 is yet to come) and it came as a surprise that I stumbled upon struct data alignment issue. I am pretty sure this was not a problem with Visual Studio .NET 2003. The project includes my C++…
Another weird bug from Visual C++ .NET/ATL internals (Visual Studio .NET 2003 Service Pack 1). IDispatch implementation (IModuleCommunicationTcp on the screenshot) supplied by Visual C++ compiler that converts “by DISPID” IDispatch::Invoke call into virtual method call (IModuleCommunicationTcp::get_HttpHost) does not initialize local BSTR variable i1 on stack. In case of method failure (in which case there…
A friend of mine recently told that BrainBench has a promotion with a free C++ test (to be requested for free before March, 31) and I decided to spend an hour to take it. Here is the test description: Our C++ test measures your knowledge of programming in C++. Designed for experienced programmers, this test…