Re: Windows' ExitThread() and clasess' destructors

On 10/15/2011 5:18 AM, Camilo Bravo Vald?s wrote:


I think this is common to all threading API's. C++11 may fix this,
but if you're using an C++03 compiler, try defining a special exception,
and catch it only in the top level thread function. The exception
propagation will call your destructors and then when you exit the top
level thread function, the thread will terminate.

struct TerminateThread {
  int const exit_code;
  TerminateThread(int x) : exit_code(x) { }
};

int thread_function()
{
   try {
       // do stuff
       // exit normally
   }
   catch (TerminateThread e) {
       return e.exit_code;
   }
}

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