Saturday, May 21, 2005

Dumpbin Dumped? Chris Sells is reporting that dumpbin.exe has been removed from Whidbey.  Not true!  Dumpbin.exe and Editbin.exe have been removed from the VC++ Express SKU only as part of the effort to make that particular SKU as small as possible but they are there in all other SKUs. As Chris mentions, those programs are just wrappers around link.exe, which implements all their functionality.  So, for example, "dumpbin.exe" and "link.exe -dump"are functionally equivalent. 9:16:12 PM    comment []

Non-Trivial Code Example from Raymond Chen This is pretty cool: Raymond Chen is developing a Chinese/English dictionary program and we get to follow along in his weblog.  Here are the episodes so far: Developing a Chinese/English dictionary: Introduction Loading the dictionary, part 1: Starting point Loading the dictionary, part 2: Character conversion Loading the dictionary, part 3: Breaking the text into lines Loading the dictionary, part 4: Character conversion redux Loading the dictionary, part 5: Avoiding string copying Loading the dictionary, part 6: Taking advantage of our memory allocation pattern     2:38:35 PM    comment []