Re: [ProgSoc] Windows thread communication?

[Geoff Saxby <geoffs@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 10:29:20AM +1000, Nigel Sheridan-Smith wrote:
> 
> Many Windows messages rely on a return value or pass pointers to data... In
> this case you will have to find some other way of doing it because pointers
> can't be guaranteed to be valid unless its synchronous. How about a shared

Why won't the pointers be valid? All the threads run in the same memory
space. If I pass a pointer to some data it should be fine for the 
reciever to read that data. (Assuming that the memory that the pointer
points to is still valid.)

Geoff
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