MFC and PostMessage problem in Release build

From:

Faisal <faisalm83@gmail.com>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Thu, 5 Feb 2009 21:10:40 -0800 (PST)

Message-ID:

<17b0be19-adfe-4d4d-ac24-fb2130662e3a@z6g2000pre.googlegroups.com>

I 've an application developed with MFC, which behaves abnormally in
the release build.
It's a dialog-based application with two buttons START and STOP. While
clicking the START, it starts a thread. The thread just sleeps 2000ms
and posts a user-defined message to the dialog. In this message
handler the START button is enabled and STOP is disabled.

My implementation is given below.

#define UWM_STOP (WM_USER + 124)

BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CPostTestDlg, CDialog)
    //{{AFX_MSG_MAP(CPostTestDlg)
    ON_BN_CLICKED(IDC_BTN_START, OnBtnStart)
    ON_BN_CLICKED(IDC_BTN_STOP, OnBtnStop)
    ON_MESSAGE(UWM_STOP, OnBtnStop )
    //}}AFX_MSG_MAP
END_MESSAGE_MAP()

DWORD WINAPI CPostTestDlg::ThreadFn( LPVOID lpParam )
{
    CPostTestDlg* pThis = static_cast<CPostTestDlg*>(lpParam);

    while( 1 )
    {
        Sleep( 2000 );

        TRACE(_T("Posting message\n"));
        ::PostMessage( pThis->m_hWnd, UWM_STOP, 0, 0 );
        break;
    }

    return 0;
}

void CPostTestDlg::OnBtnStart()
{
    GetDlgItem( IDC_BTN_START )->EnableWindow( FALSE );
    GetDlgItem( IDC_BTN_STOP )->EnableWindow( TRUE );

    DWORD dwThreadID;
    m_hThread = ::CreateThread(NULL, 0, ThreadFn, (void*)this, NULL,
&dwThreadID);
}

void CPostTestDlg::OnBtnStop()
{
    TRACE(_T("Stop receieved\n"));

    ::WaitForSingleObject( m_hThread, INFINITE );
    ::CloseHandle( m_hThread );

    GetDlgItem( IDC_BTN_START )->EnableWindow( TRUE );
    GetDlgItem( IDC_BTN_STOP )->EnableWindow( FALSE );

}

These code runs smoothly in debug build. When I run it in release
mode, for the first two START and STOP it works fine. When I click
the start third time it crashes.

I've encountered this problem in a complex project. In order to
confirm this issue, I tried this in a sample project (code listed
above). But this problem occurs in this simple project too.

Could someone see something wrong in my code?