Re: CreateThread
Mikep wrote:
"Ben Voigt [C++ MVP]" <rbv@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
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Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
On 2008-03-17 10:37:46, Ben Voigt [C++ MVP] wrote:
CreateThread is perfectly fine in most situations. _beginthreadex
is only needed if
(1) The CRT is used from that thread.
AND
(2) The CRT is statically linked.
Is there a reason to favor CreateThread over _beginthreadex?
CreateThread is available to any compiler targetting Win32.
_beginthreadex, as the leading underscore suggests, is specific to
the Microsoft compiler runtime library.
So as long as you are using a Microsoft compiler, you won't have any
problems if you always use _beginthreadex? Is there ever a case where
it's the wrong choice?
Well's it's also language specific (C/C++) and version-specific, so if
you're mixing and matching components I would try to stick with the pure
Windows API.
Furthermore, you ought to write your code in such a way that it doesn't
matter... for example the threadpool is started by CreateThread and if you
want your code to work on any thread, make sure you aren't depending on the
special _beginthreadex behavior.
I never call _beginthreadex myself.
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