Re: debugging multithreaded app

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From: Tim Robinson (tim.at.gaat.freeserve.co.uk_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 03/16/05 

Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 21:38:45 -0000

"Bruno van Dooren" <microvax@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:eW6ZXylKFHA.1176@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> i was debugging a multithreaded app, when i stumbled across some weird
> behavior of the debugger.
>
> in the destructor of my main object i send a stop event to the worker
> thread, and then wait until that thread has finished.
>
> m_Stop = true;
> while(GetExitCodeThread() == STILL_RUNNING)
> Sleep(50);
[...]

I can't claim any insight into your problem, but this is the traditional way
to wait for a thread to exit:

m_Stop = true;
WaitForSingleObject(m_ThreadHandle, INFINITE);

There's no need to poll, as the original code does. 

-- 
Tim Robinson
MVP, Windows SDK

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