On Thu, 20 Jan 2022 at 00:43, William A Rowe Jr <wr...@rowe-clan.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 11:31 AM Yann Ylavic <ylavic....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I'm a bit surprised that _WIN32_WCE used CreateThread() while more > > recent ones use _beginthreadex(), shouldn't it be the opposite? > > CreateThread() aligns more with the usual/modern naming convention on > Windows.. > > Ignore naming conventions. We are a library that sits on top of > MSVCRT/LIBCMT, and > so the stdc lib we use needs to know a thread has started. > CreateThread doesn't let > the clib particpate and this causes specific problems for .dll loaded > modules like our lib. > That's true. But Microsoft finally fixed this in Universal CRT ( Visual Studio 2015). In UCRT beginthreadex() is almost a wrapper around CreateThread(). So maybe it makes sense to require VS 2015 for APR trunk and just use CreateThread? -- Ivan Zhakov
