Mercurial

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Aliasing symbol names during Link time

Reference: see  VC/crt/src/crtdll.c

  /*
  * _pRawDllMain MUST be an extern const variable, which will be aliased to
  * _pDefaultRawDllMain if no real user definition is present, thanks to the
  * alternatename directive.
  */

extern BOOL (WINAPI * const _pRawDllMain)(HANDLE, DWORD, LPVOID);
extern BOOL (WINAPI * const _pDefaultRawDllMain)(HANDLE, DWORD, LPVOID) = NULL;
#if defined (_M_IX86)
#pragma comment(linker, "/alternatename:__pRawDllMain=__pDefaultRawDllMain")
#elif defined (_M_IA64) || defined (_M_AMD64)
#pragma comment(linker, "/alternatename:_pRawDllMain=_pDefaultRawDllMain")
#else  /* defined (_M_IA64) || defined (_M_AMD64) */
#error Unsupported platform
#endif  /* defined (_M_IA64) || defined (_M_AMD64) */

Example:

1. Inside a static lib A, put the following

extern "C" int xxx = 2;

2. Inside an EXE which links A, put the following

extern "C" int a = 4;
#pragma comment(linker, "/alternatename:_xxx=_a")

In this case "xxx" will be resolved as 2. Now how if we remove the line inside static-lib A. In this case the linker will replace "xxx" with "a", which is equal to 4.


BTW, don't forget to put addition "_" in front of symbol name inside #pragma comment directives. It is necessary to follow "C" name decoration. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/deaxefa7.aspx.

Coding Standard

http://www.possibility.com/Cpp/CppCodingStandard.html

boost::spirit

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/924642/boost-spirit-headers-deprecated

C/C++ Linkage

• Scope determines what you can see within a translation unit. Linkage determines what you can see across translation units. 
• "Weak" symbols (notes: gcc calls attributes, vc++ calls declspec)
• How to determine default libraries for an .obj object file in Visual C++

Internationalization (i18n) and Localization (l10n)

String API and i18n

Migrating to Visual Studio 2010

Visual C++ Team Blog

• Various build information settings
• Project Dependency vs. Project Reference

Info from MSDN blog
Problems when converting vsprops
System Property vs. User Property
VC++ Directories

String/Text Formatting

FastFormat (Article)
Boost::format performance notes
Efficient String concatenation

Profile Guided Optimization

PGO with Visual C++
PGO using Visual Studio 2005
MSDN Documentation for VS2008

Visual Studio Extension (Add-Ins)

• Walkthrough: Debugging an Add-in Project
• Automation and Extensibility Reference
• List of important Assemblies
• Check project types
• Check project types for C++ (using proj.Kind == vcContextGuids.vcContextGuidVCProject)
• How to navigate projects
• Installing Add-In
• VS2010 Know How
• (VCProject)EnvDTE.Project.Object doesn't work in 2010
• VS2010: Can't access EnvDTE.Constants?

windows management console (msc) list

http://searchwarp.com/swa217012.htm

• certmgr.msc Certificate Manager
• ciadv.msc Indexing Service
• comexp.msc Component services
• compmgmt.msc Computer management
• devmgmt.msc Device Manager 
• dfrg.msc Defragment
• diskmgmt.msc Disk Management
• fsmgmt.msc Folder Sharing Management
• eventvwr.msc Event Viewer
• gpedit.msc Group Policy 
• iis.msc Internet Information Services
• lusrmgr.msc Local Users and Groups
• mscorcfg.msc .Net configurations
• ntmsmgr.msc Removable Storage
• perfmon.msc Performance Manager
• rsop.msc RSoP - Resultant Set of Policy
• secpol.msc Local Security Policy
• services.msc System Services 
• wmimgmt.msc Windows Management Instrumental

Quaternions (Vecsor, Tensor)

http://www.itk.org/CourseWare/Training/QuaternionsI.pdf
http://www.itk.org/CourseWare/Training/QuaternionsII.pdf