Jason A. Donenfeld

You have to be careful with alignment on some archs with that sort of unsafe cast. Typically what I've done in C is memcpy to the destination and let gcc...

It traps into the kernel, where the kernel decodes the offending instruction and emulates it by doing a byte-by-byte read. You can also tell the kernel to sigbus your process...

Yea this is the memcpy trick I mentioned. A good compiler should produce optimal code here, since it knows whether the arch can do the fixed-length copy wordwise or not.

In the CL discussion, there was some question as to when "optional" diagnostics gets enabled. I was just installing a fresh Windows 11 board a few minutes ago and noticed...

> Given that this only happens on insider builds, it isn't even that sketchy that the option is preselected. This wasn't an insider build; I was installing the Windows 11...

> I'd actually prefer to disable/revert the change for 1.18 and decide exactly how we want to proceed. This has already happened, FYI. There's also the WER option to pop...

From the top post: > Before this proposal moves to an "under consideration" step, we should get a clearer idea about what we're proposing. For the record, I still don't...

> It sounds like if we make this change, then developers who have not edited the registry will not see any change at all. > And developers who did edit...

> @zx2c4 was suggesting above to call MiniDumpWriteDump from dbghelp.dll directly, instead of letting WER do it. Either way a minidump is produced and either way the result can be...

WER means we hand the state of a crashing app to the WER API and say "do something with it." As an app developer, I can actually register to receive...