Multithreading Multi-Threaded Programming

How the Main Thread Talks to a Worker
Thread
} Does not work: Windows message sent to the worker
} the worker thread doesn’t have a message loop.
} What work:
} global variables : The simplest way, because all the threads in the
process have access to all the globals.
} More , wait…
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UINT ComputeThreadProc(LPVOID pParam)
{
g_nCount = 0;
while (g_nCount < 100) {
// Do some computation here
::InterlockedIncrement((long*) &g_nCount);
}
return 0;
}
Advanced Windows Network Programming
11/11/12