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echo: os2prog
to: Thomas Seeling
from: Phil Crown
date: 1996-08-27 08:53:06
subject: OS/2, Watcom 10.0, threads & stacks

-=> Quoting Thomas Seeling to Mikko Hyvarinen <=- 

 TS> Hallo, Mikko!

 TS> *** Am 17. August 1996 um 22:04 schrieb Mikko Hyvarinen an All:
 
 MH> stack = (char *) malloc(STACK_SIZE);
 MH> tid = _beginthread(child, stack, STACK_SIZE, args);
 
 MH> ... do I have to free the stack myself or does the runtime library do it?

 TS> You don't have to allocate memory for the stack yourself, just provide
 TS> the stacksize and send a NULL as stack pointer.

The stack parameter in _beginthread() is only used for OS/2 1.x, its
should always be NULL in OS/2 2.x and later.

Phil
pcrown{at}airmail.net
http://web2.airmail.net/pcrown/index.html


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