So I was visiting my parents the other day. They've been going through old boxes of stuff, simplifying a little, and had stumbled across the first home computer we bought: a Commodore 128. This was the state of the art when I was in sixth grade, I think...

... you'll probably forget to call _resetstkoflw() in your exception handler when it's a stack overflow exception. This re-establishes the guard page, so that the next time the thread hits a stack overflow, it'll get another stack overflow exception;...

I noticed another fun thing about structured exception handling the other day; it's probably old news to the compiler team, but I thought it was interesting. Imagine you have code like this: DoSomething(); // This may raise an exception. try { *x = NULL;...