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A process may map files to its address space, thereby creating a 1-to-1 equivalence between the files’ data and its corresponding memory-mapped region. Memory mapping has several uses: Dynamic loading ...

OK after reviewing the size of the data I'm going to be dealing with, and listening to a rather convincing argument from someone who has done something similar to what I am attempting, I have decided ...

I'm working on a Windows text editor using MSVC++ and WTL. One of the decisions I'm having some trouble with is how to perform I/O. I'd like to be able to open up a text file, detect the input code ...