Who
Aaron Ballman is a senior software engineer for a leading colorimetric software company. He has over a decade of experience writing cross-platform frameworks in C/C++, compiler & language design, and software engineering best practices.
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Tag Archives: MSVC
Describing the MSVC ABI for Structure Return Types
An ABI is an “application binary interface”, which is basically a contract between pieces of executable code on how to behave. The ABI dictates things like how parameters are passed, where return values go, how to create and destroy stack … Continue reading
An Almost Useful Language Extension
While fiddling around a bit with clang, I came across an interesting C++ language extension from Microsoft. If you’ve done library development on Windows, you’ve likely come across the __declspec keyword for things like importing and exporting symbols from a … Continue reading
