What Witchcraft Is This?
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Windows APIDebuggingCompiler Optimizations
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Windows API
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Compiler Optimizations
The article discusses a puzzling issue with the Windows API that was resolved by understanding compiler optimizations, sparking interest in the intricacies of low-level programming.
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abstractspoon
3 months ago
I guessed wrong. I thought it might be a custom clipboard format that was configured to render on demand combined with an OLE embedding
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