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I'm editing a Visual Studio (not Code) solution. I believe I need to add to "Additional Library Directories":

$(SolutionDir)\..\..\bin\Windows\$(XXX)

Where XXX is some project property which is equal to "x86" on x86 builds and "x64" on x64 builds.

1. Where can I find the documentation that lists builtin project properties? I find

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/msbuild/common-msbuild-project-properties?view=visualstudio

But it doesn't include $(SolutionDir) which appears to exist.

2. How do I get MSVS to show "verbose" builds that show EG cl invocations?

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ME: Yes, that's because I don't want to use it.

GOOGLE: But would it change your mind… if it were a confusing melange of colors that screams "at no point did a designer look at this before it shipped"?

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Has anyone ever tried a generational mark-compact garbage collector where the "generations" are just watermark pointers within the compacting space. Tenuring objects out of the young gen would just be a matter of updating the "young gen begins here" pointer to point to the current allocate head. (Assume you have enough control over the virtual memory mapper that you can always test an object's generation with a single pointer compare.)
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If all you have a hammer, then everything looks like a nail. But if all you have is a screwdriver or a wrench, this doesn't necessarily mean that everything looks like a screw or a bolt, because either of those items can be used as an improvised hammer. Also if you have two wrenches you can break a padlock without needing boltcutters. I'm not actually sure what the moral here is
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I rebooted my computer and Google Chrome, which I have launched maybe once in the last year, immediately used the Windows notification system to show me an ad for "AI"