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Bug 22

Summary: use _beginthread on Windows...
Product: SDL Reporter: Ryan C. Gordon <icculus>
Component: threadAssignee: Ryan C. Gordon <icculus>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2 CC: codepro
Version: HG 1.2   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Windows (All)   
Attachments: Patch to use _beginthreadex on win32

Description Ryan C. Gordon 2006-01-03 12:14:18 UTC 
Bruno Mart
Comment 1 Ryan C. Gordon 2006-01-03 12:19:05 UTC 
Sam says this is good to go on Windows, even when using Cygwin (which actually uses mingw32, and thus the MSVC runtime)...write up this patch.

--ryan.
Comment 2 Jon Atkins 2006-01-04 03:02:17 UTC 
a leak can become a flood...on some programs ;)
Comment 3 Alex Volkov 2006-01-04 15:46:17 UTC 
Created attachment 16 [details]
Patch to use _beginthreadex on win32

Here is a patch to do the thing. Had to use _beginthreadex, after all, so that the returned thread handle is not auto-closed when the thread exits.
This is tested on both MSVC and Cygwin/MinGW compilation and builds, as well as a couple games.
Comment 4 Ryan C. Gordon 2006-01-04 16:02:26 UTC 
Patch applied to CVS, thanks!

--ryan.
Comment 5 Ryan C. Gordon 2006-01-27 11:23:05 UTC 
Setting Sam as "QA Contact" on all bugs (even resolved ones) so he'll definitely be in the loop to any further discussion here about SDL.

--ryan.