23.8. The MFC program flow
In this long section we’re going to try and explain the execution of a Windows program built using the MFC framework (which is also called the AFX/MFC framework). The story is not all that clearly told in the Microsoft documentation, but one can check out the details by tracing function calls in the debugger.
The author has a lingering anxiety that he’s made some mistakes in this account. On the other hand, he has a feeling of boredom and impatience about further examining the innards of MFC. One of the differences between science and computer science is that in science you are investigating things that are going to be around for a long time. In computer science, your objects of investigation are eternally moving targets, ...
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