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Error handling function (Win32/C)

I have written the following function to be a general "error logging" solution for my Windows API projects. Basically, given a Windows system error code (a la ...
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Red-black tree appears to be slower than std::multimap

I've written a red-black tree in C as an exercise. The tree works and it is not bad, but it is about 10% slower than std::multimap from libstdc++ which I'm ...
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Markdown parser library in C

For a side project, I needed a markdown parser and I decided to roll my own. It is a SAX-style parser, i.o.w. you can hook into parser events on consumer side and do whatever you want with the content....
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tbf - An Optimizing Brainfuck Interpreter and Transpiler in C

Language: The Brainfuck programming language consists of eight commands: ...
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Simple virtual machine prototype for Lisp-style languages

I found a post I made here an year ago (Compiler for a minimal LISP dialect to run on the Java Virtual Machine) and got interested on this subject again. This time I decided to implement the ...
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Menu Parser in C

This is a simple program that parses a menu specification and creates a menu tree. Why? I want to create a menu application, where the user can select an entry in the menu, and either a submenu can ...
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A POSIX getdelim() and getline() implementation for MSVC

Tired of always having problems in reading arbitrary length lines from file under Windows, I tried to write a POSIX getdelim() and ...
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Single-threaded coroutine in C (Linux x86-64)

Background Story I crafted a simple single-threaded coroutine in C, running on Linux x86-64. Short Technical Explanation 1) Task There are two types of tasks in this implementation. Main task. This ...
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Binary PATRICiA Prefix Trie

I was wondering if we could speed-up lookup in a hash table of strings by only storing the difference between them, like HAMT. Taking this idea to its end, I ended up with a binary PATRICiA prefix-...
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Cache conscious SIMD matrix multiply of unsigned integers

The goal of the code review by order of importance (i.e. What I hope to hear from you): I've verified correctness using a straightforward matrix multiply function though I am open to those who want to ...
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Reusing curl easy handles in C

In a C project I want to reuse curl easy handles. The flow of program is like: Client --> C Application --> Call URL1, do something, Call URL2, do something, Call URL3... In short, for each client ...
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16x16 integer matrix transpose using SSE2 intrinsics in C

I was inspired by this and this to make a C function that would take an array of 16 __m128i, treat it as a matrix of 16x16 ...
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Testing and coding conventions for testing C with SDL

I finished my first real C project and it was Conways Game of Life. The code is working fine and the game runs. Since this was my first project though I don't know any of the real code conventions for ...
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Reduce size of minesweeper program to fit in qr code

I saw a guy who fit snake in a qr code and I wanted to do the same thing but with minesweeper. The maximum amount of data a qr code can hold is 3kb. My c program, without any compiler magic, takes up ...
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Basic snake game in C

I wanted to learn C and Win32 so I thought the best way to start would be to create a simple game to get familiar with the language, so I made Snake. The games works perfectly except for sometimes ...

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