Hi guys,
I encountered something interesting while debugging a newer build of my application. I noticed that all of a sudden I was receiving approximately 10 new exceptions in the debugger on startup that I wasn't receiving before. After digging a little, I found out that the app coders were making use of a 'hidden' feature of MS VC that allowed you to name your threads (thus allowing for easier debugging).
To do this, you call RaiseException with the code of 0x406D1388. (Search on deja.com or google.com for "0x406D1388" for details.) The windows debugger seems to be on the lookout for this code. Of course, what it does in wine is just breaking into the debugger many times and getting on my nerves. :-)
For now, I put the little hack I attached to this mail in my tree to save my sanity. My question to the list is, (A) is there a way to name threads in Linux/Unix (I don't think so, but of course I could be wrong) and (B) should we support MS's hack somehow in the official tree?
-James
-- James Hatheway Software Designer - Macadamian Technologies, Inc. james@macadamian.com ~ http://www.macadamian.com
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier" "One could be happy if the air were as pure as the beer"
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James Hatheway