Thread: multithreading in C++

So show me some code where the CRT will leak memory because of the use of CreateThread.

Originally Posted by MSDN

If a thread created using CreateThread calls the CRT, the CRT may terminate the process in low-memory conditions.

which is generally a non-issue unless your code specifically follows an 'allocate until refused' paradigm, but it says nothig about leaking memory.

I don't understand why you are refusing to acknowledge that CreateThread has problems. _beginthreadex will still give you the same result as CreateThread but without the problems that come with it. What is the point of arguing here other than just to argue? I would think you would care about the end product more than about being right. Perhaps I'm wrong.

straight from the source (and 1st result for googling 'createthread memory leak')

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/104641

All C Run-time functions except the signal() function work correctly when used in threads that are created by the CreateThread() function. However, depending on what CRT functions are called, there may be a small memory leak when threads are terminated. Calling strlen(), for example, does not trigger the allocation of the CRT thread data-block, and calling malloc(), fopen(), _open(), strtok(), ctime(), or localtime() causes allocation of a CRT per-thread data-block, which may cause a memory leak.