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Daniel Rasmussen
Here's a little trick to creating generic functions and types. Multiple include with the same fil…
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ratchetfreak
Horrowind Not too interesting, but funny: 1#define private public That's not complete without…
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Jason
I wonder if some kind soul could spend some time and tell me where I went wrong with the live cod…
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Horrowind
Not too interesting, but funny: 1#define private public
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Casey Muratori
Thanks for the kind words! Really glad the series had that effect. It's had the same effect for…
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Randy Gaul
When I did this I didn't bother replicating the macros, and instead hard-coded with A suffixes. S…
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Abner Coimbre
Extended Public Beta The fixing of the bugs has led Jeroen to redesign some key aspects of the d…
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Bl00drav3n
Regarding the latest episode, where Casey thought about calling pow(x, 2.2) for gamma correction,…
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PassiveCoder
oh nice catch, thanks mmozeiko
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Mārtiņš Možeiko
But adding -Wv:18 will generate warning for VS2013 users. VS2015 users need to modify build scrip…
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Mārtiņš Možeiko
I dislike macros that create multiple statements. Doing them for definitions or declarations is f…
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Mārtiņš Možeiko
That's wrong. It should be GetModuleHandleW, because you are using LPCWSTR argument. That is wide…
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Mārtiņš Možeiko
In this case it will be even better - compiler will notice that values you are initializing array…
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Simon Anciaux
Hi, I'm using stb_truetype.h and I've got some questions on how to properly position characters. …
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rizoma
While reading the k&r book I found an interesting example (at least for a noob like me) of wh…
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PassiveCoder
Oh my goodness, how embarrassing! That was it, also I had to define GetModuleHandle as GetModuleH…
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Dominik Madarász
You need to wrap the code inside of extern "C" scope: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 …
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PassiveCoder
I rather like this idea, the last time I checked the pre-processor output the windows guff made m…
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Dominik Madarász
Thanks, I'll look into that one. It's nice to have this topic, always stuff to learn.
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PassiveCoder
Hi everyone :) I'm a long time follower, first time poster, that just want to say a big Thank Yo…
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Jack Mott
I like the SCALL! That could come in handy. I just stumbled on another reflection-ish trick with…
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Dominik Madarász
Honestly I'm a big fan of macros, sometimes I even unnecessarily overuse them. I either use it t…
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Benjamin Pedersen
The Handmade Hero code triggers a lot of warnings (primarily variable shadowing) in VS2015. These…
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Jack Mott
I learned of a neat macro trick today, maybe old hat to most of you but maybe not "#" is a "stri…
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Jack Mott
I know the author is working on a GCC compatible solution now, I think he had an approach that wo…
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Mārtiņš Možeiko
This is relevant not only for HTML tags, but also for C++ code. If I want to type in some sentenc…
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Mārtiņš Možeiko
The way you detect instruction set at runtime won't work with GCC/clang. For example, if you wan…
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Timothy Wright
Never mind, I found the missing feature thread right after posting this. lols
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Timothy Wright
Maybe I just can't find it, but I like searching for posts before asking a question.
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Timothy Wright
Casey, I wish you could have something like this a little closer to the middle of the year inste…
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