Re: process.h

From:
"Ben Voigt [C++ MVP]" <rbv@nospam.nospam>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:17:44 -0500
Message-ID:
<Ov70$50nIHA.4912@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl>
Alex Blekhman wrote:

"Carmen Sei" wrote:

Is process.h windows specific?

I need to use threading by using function like
_beginthread
_beginthreadex

i go to C++ reference web site
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/

but I don't see CRT has the process.h file.


These functions are platform/vendor specific. According to the C++
standard

   - any name in the global scope that begins with an underscore
or,
   - any name that contains a double underscore or begins with an
underscore followed by an uppercase letter

are reserved to implementation (i.e. compiler and/or CRT vendor).

Since the version 7.0 VC++ follows the standard with respect to
CRT names. So, when you see a name with an underscore, it means
that it's not standard.

As Nathan already pointed, C++ is very differnt from Java. In C++
world the distinction between the language itself and its
libraries is much clearer than in Java.


True, but even in C++ there are standard libraries and platform-specific
libraries (and app-specific, etc). Threading has not been part of the
standard C++ library. That changes with C++0x.

http://www.knowing.net/PermaLink,guid,a9893896-63fa-4752-8a03-7660da2f9e0e.aspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B0x

HTH
Alex

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