From 13644a8180a084c4c682d54f27a2eaab01a92d7f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2019 11:59:22 +0200
Subject: thrd: Add comment.

* lib/thrd.c (pthread_main_func): Add comment.
---
 lib/thrd.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

(limited to 'lib/thrd.c')

diff --git a/lib/thrd.c b/lib/thrd.c
index e8f29bc09c..f3f69496b0 100644
--- a/lib/thrd.c
+++ b/lib/thrd.c
@@ -263,6 +263,10 @@ pthread_main_func (void *pmarg)
   /* Execute mainfunc, with arg as argument.  */
   {
     int exitcode = mainfunc (arg);
+    /* Note: When using Windows threads, this exit code is different from the
+       argument passed to ExitThread(), because the latter should never be 259,
+       see <https://docs.microsoft.com/de-de/windows/desktop/api/processthreadsapi/nf-processthreadsapi-getexitcodethread>,
+       whereas the exit code passed to thrd_exit() is not constrained.  */
     return (void *) (intptr_t) exitcode;
   }
 }
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