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What's a better way to start a thread, _beginthread , _beginthreadx or CreateThread ? I'm trying to determine what are the advantages/disadvantages of _beginthread , _beginthreadex and CreateThread . All of these functions return a thread handle to a newly created thread, I already know that CreateThread provides a little extra information when an error occurs (it can be checked by calling GetLastError )... but what are some things I should consider when I'm using these functions? I'm working with a windows application, so cross-platform compatibility is already out of the question. I have gone through the msdn documentation and I just can't understand, for example, why anybody would decide to use _beginthread instead of CreateThread or vice versa. Cheers! Update: OK, thanks for all the info, I've also read in a couple of places that I can't call WaitForSingleObject() if I used _beginthread() , but if I call _endthread() in the thread shouldn't that work? What's the deal there?
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