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CreateThread & WaitForSingleObject

Hi Experts,

I'm creating a thread like this:
DWORD dwThreadID;
m_hMyThread = CreateThread(NULL, 0, (LPTHREAD_START_ROUTINE) MyThProc, (LPVOID*) this, 0, &dwThreadID);

Later on, I'm waiting on this thread to finish, with this:
WaitForSingleObject(m_hMyThread, INFINITE);

It seems to be deadlocked. Is this because this just won't work? Or is it because something else in my code somewhere is likely deadlocking?

Thanks!
Mike

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Thank you Sara, I did do something similar to this- nice answer!

I actually had a silly bug which prompted this question. But I always get good stuff on here.... :)

Cheers,
Mike

sarabande

thanks Mike.

i saw the following by rereading the question:

(LPVOID*) this

LPVOID already is void*. so LPVOID* actually is void** (what doesn't make any difference to the call though).

you could omit the cast at all since the compiler always would allow an implicit cast to void* . the compiler even accepted the pointer to pointer as a valid argument for void* without warning.

Sara

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I just saw your last comment- double awesome. Thanks! :-)

CreateThread &amp; WaitForSingleObject

CreateThread & WaitForSingleObject