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Subject: Re: Multithreading under windows

Author: Andrew Dados

Date: 13:11:17 12/05/00

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On December 05, 2000 at 16:10:15, Andrew Dados wrote:

>On December 05, 2000 at 12:37:02, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>
>>On December 05, 2000 at 10:28:27, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>
>>>this is not nonsense. blocking is GARANTUEED by windows.
>>>See the microsoft documents on it. they GARANTUEE blocking to
>>>prevent parallel problems.
>>
>>Are you telling me that if I get a mouse button click message from Windows, and
>>do something outrageously expensive before returning from that message, that my
>>engine threads will block until I return?
>>
>>bruce
>
>I don't think so, however under windows only main thread should do GUI access
>(drawing, dispatching input).
>
>This is because many functions in windows kernel determines tasks by esp
 oeps.. I mean ss (stack segment)

of the
>caller and it would be confused when called from some other, then main thread.
>
>-Andrew-



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