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Creating a fake agile wrapper that is technically agile but is not useful outside its home apartment, part 5

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Cheating with std::unique_ptr.

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Creating a fake agile wrapper that is technically agile but is not useful outside its home apartment, part 4

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Moving things around if possible.

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Creating a fake agile wrapper that is technically agile but is not useful outside its home apartment, part 3

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Forcing an object into the global interface table.

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Creating a fake agile wrapper that is technically agile but is not useful outside its home apartment, part 2

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Using a reference stored in the global interface table.

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Aug 3, 2026

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Creating a fake agile wrapper that is technically agile but is not useful outside its home apartment, part 1

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Looking for a COM reference that is between strong and weak.

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