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-rw-r--r--rts/win32/Ticker.c11
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/rts/win32/Ticker.c b/rts/win32/Ticker.c
index 7701a3b275..5b41494d47 100644
--- a/rts/win32/Ticker.c
+++ b/rts/win32/Ticker.c
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ TimerProc(PVOID param)
}
-int
+void
startTicker(nat ms, TickProc handle_tick)
{
unsigned threadId;
@@ -95,10 +95,14 @@ startTicker(nat ms, TickProc handle_tick)
(LPVOID)ms,
0,
&threadId);
- return (tickThread != 0);
+
+ if (tickThread == 0) {
+ sysErrorBelch("_beginthreadex");
+ stg_exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+ }
}
-int
+void
stopTicker(void)
{
// We must wait for the ticker thread to terminate, since if we
@@ -125,5 +129,4 @@ stopTicker(void)
TerminateThread(tickThread, 0);
}
}
- return 0;
}