Washu

So if you saw my last entry, it was a basic Win32 app that created a D3D11 device and cleared the display.

Well, I've expanded upon it a wee bit more. If you're familiar with the SlimDX MiniTri11 sample this should look, erm... similar?

Added...

Washu does crazy things. In this case I wrote this up...


.586
.model flat, stdcall
option casemap :none

@ArgRev MACRO arglist:REQ
LOCAL txt, arg
txt TEXTEQU <>
% FOR arg, <arglist>
txt CATSTR <arg>, <,>, txt
ENDM

txt SUBSTR txt, 1, @SizeStr( %txt ) - 1
txt CATSTR <!<>, txt,...

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Two of the new extensions to the standard...

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