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Nico Brailovsky
Personal blog · monoinfinito.wordpress.comprogrammingsystems
Nico Brailovsky's personal blog at monoinfinito.wordpress.com covers programming and systems. Since 2013, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Nico Brailovsky's blog for deep dives into C++ internals, such as how structured exception handling is implemented. One commenter calls the exception-handling series a great exploration.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
nicolasbrailo.github.io/blog
What Hacker News says?
Nicolás Brailovsky did a great exploration in to the internals of one modern implementation of structured C++ exception handling: http://monoinfinito.wordpress.com/series/exception-handling-... He went so far as to reimplement his own handlers, which is totally awesome. For other important things, like the memory layout of the inheritance graph (generally optimal for single, non-virtual inheritance), virtual table l…
Comment linking /series/exception-handling-in-c/
on “A Low Level Curriculum for C and C++”Submitted C preprocessor internals as a story · 92 points
HN discussionSubmitted C++: A jump table with a template device as a story · 25 points
HN discussionSubmitted Shared pointers: don’t as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vectorization in GCC as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted C++: Why is undefinedness important as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everything you never wanted to know about C++ exceptions as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Shutdown a TV with HDMI CEC Chromecast as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted C++ exception handling internals as a story · 1 points
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