integrated yet, but it's tested and benchmarked [see commentary section
for further details].

SIZE_T].

maximum send fragment size. Allocate I/O buffers accordingly.

saves a bit of space and avoids a compiler warning about string length.

PR: 1160

is defined on Windows CE targets.

assembler implementation.

was previously replaced with a NUL for parsing purposes.  This seems to
fix a very weird parsing bug involving two variable references in the same
value.

with a read lock

Submitted by: Leandro Santi <lesanti@fiuba7504.com.ar>

PR: 1196

ULONG_PTR, so we replace it with equally wide SIZE_T.

fatal exceptions.