Welcome to the home of CRunTiny, a lightweight drop-in replacement for the (currently only Microsoft, so compatible with Intel C/C++ & Visual C++) runtime library. The CRunTiny library is based on techniques developed by our contributors, and described in the following articles:

• Eugene Gershnik, author of
  • "Visual C++ Exception-Handling Instrumentation", Windows Developer Magazine, Volume 13 Number 12, December 2002
  • "Special Global Variables for Common Windows Programming Tasks" Windows Developer Magazine, Volume 13 Number 7, July 2002
• Matthew Wilson, author of
  • "Open Source Software: What, How and Why?", BYTE, week of November 24th, 2003
  • "Avoiding the Visual C++ Runtime Library", Windows Developer Magazine, Volume 14 Number 2, February 2003
  • "Generating Out-of-memory Exceptions" Windows Developer Magazine, Volume 12 Number 5, May 2001

You may also have read about CRunTiny in the current (week of 24th November 2003) issue of BYTE. We're busily trying to get the first, very late, version released now, and hope to have it done by the end of this month (November 2003).

Please feel free to contact either of us in the meantime regarding our articles, or about ideas for CRunTiny.

News

• 12th December 2003: CRunTiny 1.0 is here! At long last, and after much prevarication, we're pleased to make version 1.0 available. It's a pretty minimalistic affair - there's no documentation or anything - but if you download, unzip, it's all there. Either open a command box in the make directory and type build_debug or build_release, or use it from the Visual Studio (98, 2002, or 2003) IDDE. There's also a first release of CStdioTiny, although it's only version 0.3.

• 24th November 2003: CRunTiny was described in Matthew's article "Open Source Software: What, How and Why?" in BYTE. Naturally this is giving some impetous to our releasing the first version, and we hope to do that before the end of November 2003.

• 23rd August 2003: Alas, both of us have hit some heavy workloads, so it looks like it'll not be out until October. Sorry.

• 24th April 2003: We're very nearly there. Just dynamic_cast and stdio to go, so expect to see the first release in a week or so. (Honest!)

• 28th February 2003: We're busily beavering away on the first version, and hope to have it out in the next week or two. Most parts are complete; we're just finishing of a couple of tricky bits.

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