Jan Ringoš

I'm writing Duff's device again.

Created a request for this: developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/Add-SAL-an...

Some NTDLL.DLL message table strings contain C formatting sequences like "%08lx" I wonder what to use to load these. Win32 FormatMessage sees %0 and replaces it with NUL terminator. Or is it a bug? There's just a few of those: 0xC000007B, 0xC0000144, 0xC000021A and 0xC000070A to 0xC000070E.

56,9 hours in Control Resonant. Good morning. Let's jump back in.

I'm quite looking forward to playing CONTROL Resonant, but I'm REALLY not a fan of there already being full playthroughs and a spoiler/twist videos on YouTube three fucking days before the release.

I'm not a fan of skiplists in std::hive. They advance to the next item via SHL, MUL + ADD (FMA or LEA if lucky). But it's wasteful to store an integer. The item's presence can be a single bit. The skipcount could be then calculated by SHR + LZCNT, which should be faster or equal in performance.

Mockup: A feature that I find myself repeatedly missing in @visualstudio.com: Annotation for resources string IDs that make the string appear on request. Or perhaps even all the time in small gray font beside or under the line.

[back in the day] Low level programmers: "It's all about optimizing every byte and every cycle, use as little RAM as you can" Other devs: "Nonsense. We have plenty of RAM" [today] Low level programmers: "Well well well"

Anyone here knows what might've gone wrong and how to fix this? Starting cmd.exe elevated takes up to 3 minutes for consent.exe to launch, but after that succeeds any .msc will launch immediately without further issue. Also something seems to be oplocking files at random.

B-sized Azure VMs have been deprecated and can no longer be created. Alright. But @visualstudio.com Dev Essentials still offers credits to only Basv2/Bpsv2/B2ats v2/B2pts v2 virtual machines. Seems like major oversight.

So, hypothetically, how likely it is for some next version of Windows to increase the number of kernel handles a single process can create (16M currently), and if, then when will that happen?

In the latest version I added entries from SYSTEM_HYPERVISOR_USER_SHARED_DATA and SILO_USER_SHARED_DATA. And now I realized GUI apps can't display GUI from a silo yet.

Everyone's understanding of economy here seems to be stuck at the age of 8 watching Scrooge McDuck.

Hmm, SEC_LARGE_PAGES don't count towards process commit, but MEM_LARGE_PAGES do.

And I firmly maintain that 'std::rand' is better than 'std::mt19937/std::uniform_int_distribution' for real-world comparable benchmarking.

I've listened to both sets of arguments, carefully reviewed all the footage and angles, read the summary on the applicable laws, and have concluded that both sides are fucking retarded.

Did you know that Task Manager won't load properly if started on different desktop than Winsta0\Default?

Will we ever see Windows like that again?

If you haven't seen it yet (HL3): www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB1p...

I'm thinking... with just two detours to RtlInitUnicodeString and RtlDosPathNameToNtPathName_U ...the whole Windows API could basically support non-NUL-terminated wstring_views. That could be interesting PoC to pursue.

Another fun troubleshooting. dism /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup ...will fail and completely roll back all attempts at cleanup, if the oldest CbsPersist_XXX.log somehow reached near 4 GB and thus can't be compressed into an existing .cab archive. Something totally courtesy.

I could really use having current NUMA node number in TEB. Updated on context switch by the kernel.

Once again my annoying questions made Raymond Chen spin up a whole new blog post.

I think APIs like SetLastError/GetLastError should be finally replaced with inline code in the SDK. It's not like TEB is going to change. Everyone's accessing it directly anyway.

Clean shutdown of Azure Spot Virtual Machines through something lighter than cyclically executing scripts? Why of course! Use my slim service (open source) to do what Azure should be IMHO doing on it's own. Note the size :) github.com/tringi/shutd...

C:\> compact /C /S:C:\ /I /F /EXE:LZX

So let me get this straight... a person with Tourette's, who inspired a movie about people with Tourette's being misunderstood, has an involuntary fit of Tourette's ...and gets misunderstood. ...by the very same audience who highly acclaimed the movie itself.

A solution to OpenGL apps, like my Starfield Screensaver (tringi.trimcore.cz/Starfield_Sc...), sometimes breaking HDR and brightness: NVIDIA Control Panel -> Manage 3D Settings -> Vulkan/OpenGL Present Method -> Prefer layered on DXGI swapchain

If I set DWMWA_SYSTEMBACKDROP_TYPE, then DWMWA_CAPTION_COLOR must be either set manually, or to DWMWA_COLOR_NONE. Because DWMWA_COLOR_DEFAULT swaps red and blue component of the default/system caption color. Was that always a thing? Or am I breaking something again somehow?

If anyone wants a quick and dirty KUSER_SHARED_DATA viewer: 👉 github.com/tringi/KUSER...

Did you know that the old deprecated GetTickCount actually returns 64-bit (not-overflowing) value, same as GetTickCount64, but computes the result differently?

Alright, now I'm fully on board of the #Microslop train.

The last time.

Hyper-V CPUID on 26100.32230 now reports Service Pack 32. Amusing.

Some `winver` am I right? github.com/tringi/winver It was supposed to fit into 4 kB at first, but many nice-to-have features keep popping up. What should I add next?

IDK, I still want ADL for scoped enums in C++, i.e.: enum class color {  red,  green,  blue, }; int function (color c); int main () {  function (red); // color::red  color green = blue; // color::blue  function (green); // locals have priority } Using-enum-declaration doesn't quite cut it.

The "backward compatibility" lying of Windows 11 is getting truly ridiculous. GetThemeSysFont (TMT_CAPTIONFONT) now returns "Segoe UI" no matter how hard the app is manifested, despite it actually using "Segoe UI Variable" and both fonts having different symbols and fallbacks.

I absolutely love asking AI to find me API functions.

I dared to criticize The Holy Reflections in C++ subreddit. Oh yeah.