InitializeCriticalSectionAndSpinCount

[mysterd429]

Hi, all,

I'm new to Windows programming, though I've been doing C/C++ for about 8 years. I'm trying to use a CRITICAL_SECTION without any luck. I was trying to follow the example at

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms683476.aspx

I'm just trying to understand how the function calls work right now. I have :

#include <Windows.h>
// ...
  res = InitializeCriticalSectionAndSpinCount(_cs, 0x80000400);
// ...
  __try
  {
	  EnterCriticalSection(_cs);
  }
  __except (EXCEPTION_POSSIBLE_DEADLOCK)
  {
	  std::cout << "Deadlock?" << std::endl;
	  exit(0);
  }

However, I'm getting

error C3861: 'InitializeCriticalSectionAndSpinCount': identifier not found, even with argument-dependent lookup
error C2065: 'EXCEPTION_POSSIBLE_DEADLOCK' : undeclared identifier

What am I doing wrong? I'm using VisualStudio .NET 2003 on WinXP.

Thanks!

Don

[Arjay]

include <process.h>.

Also you need to pass in the address to the critical section in these functions (i.e. &_cs).

Looks like the later msdn documentation recommends that you don't handle the EXCEPTION_POSSIBLE_DEADLOCK exception in your code.

[mysterd429]

include <process.h>.

Also you need to pass in the address to the critical section in these functions (i.e. &_cs).

Looks like the later msdn documentation recommends that you don't handle the EXCEPTION_POSSIBLE_DEADLOCK exception in your code.

Thanks for the reply! _cs is a pointer in my example. With the deadlock exception, I was just trying to see if I had the syntax for that try/catch thing right.

Cheers!

[Arjay]

Okay, did you declare the cs object and a pointer (with the pointer pointing to the address of the cs) or did you just declare a pointer?