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Imho compiler simply doesn't have enough free registers in 32-bit code to keep all needed values i…
oops, a bit of redundancy i didn't catch becuase it got optimized away. it basiclly just return th…
pthread_self is probably what you want to use if you are OK including pthread.h header in game cod…
Connor —
I can't seem to fully wrap my head around what metaprogramming really is. Could someone explain it…
In the TIMED_FUNCTION macro you need to cast FUNCTION to char * Please note that on day 184 Casey…
Nuno —
I also think that this will work: }[/code] However I'm not totally sure about it, as I didn't tes…
That's exactly how I choose to implement these and that works fine. GetThreadID (day 182) is a bu…
Steven —
I'm a huge fan of Casey and this series and I find myself nodding in agreement constantly to his r…
Hello, i'm writing an fft function, which takes 3 float pointers to arrays of float. after every i…
Nuno —
I'm not entirely sure if this is the right way to do it, but from my research I guess it is: } in…
Hi Casey, Thank you for your answer. Now I understand what you are saying :) Chris
Being a C programmer, I write a lot of pointer and direct memory code as second nature, and that c…
Moustache is an internal RAD tool. If someone is going to show it publicly, it should probably be…
Well, I had hoped that the answer would be clear enough, but I will be more precise: You only need…
That was my assumption. So I do not think we want to do anything like that in our actual code. W…
It's very unlikely that you would have to do any conversion regardless of the platform. Most (all…
Well, truth be told, we actually don't need those in Handmade Hero at all, since we control the tr…
Well...I'm the visiting team at this game. Casey's park, his rules. I don't want to introduce some…
Nowadays it is simpler to put only this at beginning of header: While it was not supported for ol…
I see an issue with the include file header guards. The implementation //... #define FILE_NAME #e…
Aside: I'm late to this series having just started and trying to get caught up. I am sorry if this…
andrea —
C syntax is simple and understandable even by novice programmers as it's free from all the OOP bul…
Right, adding __cpuid makes it significantly slower - more than 4 times. Here's benchmark on my ma…
Is handmade_optimized.cpp not a different translation unit than handmade.cpp that are linked toget…
On Handmade Hero, we do not use multiple translation units.Casey
Cool link. Thanks for sharing.
What do you expect to get out of it? If you want an overview of how a Game Engine and Game is made…
I have basic programming experience in Python and javascript(know topics like OOP)... How much of …