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@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ MSVC or GNU C (MinGW32 MSys development kit) To build from source. QueueUserAPCEx by Panagiotis E. Hadjidoukas + To support any thread cancelation in C++ library builds or + to support cancelation of blocked threads in any build. + This library is not required otherwise. + For true async cancelation of threads (including blocked threads). This is a DLL and Windows driver that provides pre-emptive APC by forcing threads into an alertable state when the APC is queued. @@ -47,6 +51,10 @@ QueueUserAPCEx by Panagiotis E. Hadjidoukas are runnable. The simulated async cancellation cannot cancel blocked threads. + QueueUserAPCEx is required in C++ builds to avoid longjmp-style + context switching in pthread_cancel(), which will otherwise affect + exception handling and proper application behaviour. + Library naming -------------- |