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To: "Arnett, Don L." <DLArnett@west.com>
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Arnett, Don L. schrieb:
> I'm new to using pthreadsWin32.  According to the TaskMgr display this program is using about 28K more memory at the second getchar() than it was at the first getchar().  I found a couple of discussions of memory leaks in the list archives and it usually was a programmer problem, but I don't see what I'm missing.  Thanks for any input.
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> #include <pthread.h>
> 
> void *pvDoSomething(void *poThreadArgs);
> 
> int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
> 
> 	pthread_t *poThread;
> 
> 	getchar();
> 
> 	poThread = (pthread_t*)calloc(1,sizeof(pthread_t));
> 	pthread_create(poThread,NULL,pvDoSomething,NULL);
> 	pthread_detach(*poThread);
> 	
> 	free(poThread);
> 
> 	getchar();
> 
> 	return 0;
> }
> 
> void *pvDoSomething(void *poThreadArgs) {
> 	return NULL;
> }
> 
> 
The created thread does not necessarily run and exit immidiately.
It might still exist when you reach the second getchar().