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After that he went to columbia university and mit, where he got a bachelors degree in mathematics. Matt pietrek is the author of windows 95 system programming secrets idg books, 1995. Discover whats new in windows 95 from a programming and architectural point of view plunge into the specifics of its three core data structures modules, processes, and threads to understand issues such as local thread storage and structured exception handling get nittygritty details about key 16 and 32bit data structures, and tour the. Matt pietrek wrote an excellent article in the january 2001 msdn. The explanation is more readable than the dry, official style of the specs. Summary a good understanding of the portable executable pe file format leads to a good understanding of the operating system. For years, pc programmers used x86 assembly to write performancecritical code. So my life has finally settled down a bit, and i find myself working for the man, here in redmond wa. Even though he flamed one of my msdn articles, i still admire the heck out of raymonds ability to explain why various windows oddities are the way they are. With over 25 years in the software industry, matt pietrek has had quite the interesting ride. This white paper is an introduction to x64 assembly. Remove fatty deposits from your applications using the liposuction tool 32bit html. By continuing to browse this site, you agree to this use.

In the past, ive been an author, consultant and trainer, specializing in microsoft windows. He was the lead architect for compuwarenumegas bounds checker product line for eight years and has authored three books on windows system programming. Matt is a columnist for msdn magazine, and speaker. Conceptually, not much has changed, so the original article is still the documentation. Contact information, faq, downloads, articles, authors msdn columns, conferences, other writers, fun photos. If you know whats in your dlls and exes, youll be a more knowledgeable programmer. This is update code from my november 2001 msdn column. Two compiler versions later, the problem is only slightly better.

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