Re: CPU load 100% threading issue

From:

"Alexander Grigoriev" <alegr@earthlink.net>

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microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Sat, 23 Jun 2007 15:26:39 -0700

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Those places don't pass HWND and pass a locally allocated msg. I don't think
these calls can ever fail.

"Joseph M. Newcomer" <newcomer@flounder.com> wrote in message
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Note that there is no instance in MFC where this is actually practiced:
here are all the
GetMessage calls I found in the MFC source:

dockcont.cpp(407)
if (!GetMessage(&msg, NULL, WM_PAINT, WM_PAINT))
dockcont.cpp(587)
if (!::GetMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0))
thrdcore.cpp(158)
if (!::GetMessage(&(pState->m_msgCur), NULL, NULL, NULL))
trckrect.cpp(611)
VERIFY(::GetMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0));
winfrmx.cpp(335)
GetMessage(&msg, NULL, WM_NCLBUTTONDOWN, WM_NCLBUTTONDOWN);
[no test at all!]
winfrmx.cpp(374)
GetMessage(&msg, NULL, msg.message, msg.message);
[ditto]

joe
On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 07:46:04 -0700, "Alexander Grigoriev"
<alegr@earthlink.net> wrote:

GetMessage is supposed to validate its parameters. If because of a
programming error the window handle become invalid, it's supposed to
return
an error, just like any not-too-badly designed function.

"Joseph M. Newcomer" <newcomer@flounder.com> wrote in message
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Why would I want to do that? The right solution is to pass NULL for the
window, meaning
"all windows".
joe
On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 19:13:21 -0700, "Alexander Grigoriev"
<alegr@earthlink.net> wrote:

Pass a bogus HWND to it.

"Joseph M. Newcomer" <newcomer@flounder.com> wrote in message
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GetMessage is defined as BOOL type. Note that the only reason it can
fail
with -1 is
catastrophic error. Microsoft seems to be incapable of defining
return
types sensibly; if
-1 is permitted, then it is not a BOOL, because BOOL has only two
meaningful values: FALSE
and NOT-FALSE.

I've never seen GetMessage return a failure code, ever.
joe

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