Welcome to MSDN Blogs Sign in | Join | Help

Browse by Tags

All Tags » Developer Info   (RSS)

How to use RtlUnwindEx

Disclaimer: I've never actually written an unwind personality routine, so take what's here with a grain of salt. A few days back, I spent 30 minutes defending the C++ runtime's exception handling personality routine to the guy that has the less than enviable Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 15, 2007 8:24 AM by Kevin Frei | 1 Comments
Filed under: ,

AMD64 unwind info gotchas

I had a brief e-mail exchange with one of the devs on the optimizer team about a checkin he put up for review. He modified the compiler so that it only aligns the stack for functions that call other functions - that's the typical definition in compiler Read More...
Posted Monday, March 12, 2007 10:34 AM by Kevin Frei | (Comments Off)

New Job, SP1

I recently switched from the lead of the Code Gen & Tools team for Visual C++ to the lead for the Code Gen team for the .Net Framework. I've not used managed code much, but for some classes of code, it sure does look easier to use [I'm working on Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 19, 2006 9:42 AM by Kevin Frei | 3 Comments
Filed under:

Speaking in 'public'...

I'll be hanging out with the cool kids at the Northwest C++ Users Group tomorrow night. If you're in the area, and want to heckle me, swing by. We'll be in building 40 at 6:30 PM. My talk starts at 7:00 PM. I'm talking about the actual runtime cost of Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 17, 2006 8:35 PM by Kevin Frei | 4 Comments

A more flexible array template [and the evolution of the idea]

{Disclaimer - I started with a bunch of code from boost::array - it's a great implementation of the functionality it provides} While my day job doesn't generally allow me to goof around with advanced C++ features, I still managed to find time to do so Read More...
Posted Monday, September 18, 2006 2:17 PM by Kevin Frei | 4 Comments
Filed under:

How to get CL.exe proxy filters (like STLFilt) working under VS2005

There's a class of tools that lots of people write that replace cl.exe with a 'wrapper' to do things link pre-process a command line [perhaps adding particular -D arguments], or filtering the output to deal with things like psychotically complicated error Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 05, 2006 8:33 AM by Kevin Frei | 8 Comments
Filed under:

x64 ABI vs. x86 ABI (aka Calling Conventions for AMD64 & EM64T)

A Summary of the x64 calling conventions with links to the official document - a handy reference for folks just starting to port a compiler, or needing to author some assembly code. Read More...
Posted Monday, March 06, 2006 3:00 PM by Kevin Frei | 14 Comments

Why isn't __assume on for asserts in retail mode?

__assume and __forceinline were the first two features I implemented as a developer out of college. I just resolved a bug as 'By Design' that asked the question posed in the title. Here's a brief explanation: First, __assume(n==x) basically tells the Read More...
Posted Monday, January 30, 2006 2:48 PM by Kevin Frei | 3 Comments
Filed under:

X64 Unwind Information

A brief discussion of how to author simple x64 unwind data for assembly files Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 04, 2006 1:48 PM by Kevin Frei | 1 Comments

How to make a no-inline inline function (and why you might want to)

What does __declspec(noinline) inline int foo(...) mean? Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 26, 2005 11:20 AM by Kevin Frei | 2 Comments
Filed under:

Boost & BJam plus Web Chats coming up

I'm a big C++ fan, despite the fact that the VC++ optimizer is written in C. I've been using Boost for a couple years now, and just picked up the initial tarball for 1.32.0. Someone's written a .jam file for VC8 on x64, but it just does the bare minimum Read More...
Posted Monday, November 08, 2004 7:07 PM by Kevin Frei | (Comments Off)
Filed under:

First Post - all things x64

Welcome to my stinkin' blog. I just wanted a place to dump interesting & useful blobs of information about what I've been doing for the past 4 or 5 years of my life @ work: x64. My name is Kevin Frei, and I've been a developer on the x64 (aka AMD64, Read More...
Posted Friday, November 05, 2004 1:24 PM by Kevin Frei | 17 Comments
Filed under:
 
Page view tracker