RE: [GD-Windows] Stopping a thread cleanly

[Brian H. <bri...@py...>]

> In this case the compiler could put bExit in a register due 
> to optimisation which obviously isn't good. 

This is actually why this came up.  When I looked at my original code,
it was basically doing this:

while ( 1 )
{
...
if ( pData->bKill )
  break;
...
}

I was more than a little concerned that the compiler wasn't reloading
pData->bKill in some instances, because there were sections of code
where no function calls were occurring but bKill was being checked
multiple times.

I was going to do the knee jerk thing of specing it as volatile, but
decided to go with WFSO instead.

Brian