C / C++ / MFC

DWORD ExecuteProcess(LPCTSTR pCommandLine, LPCTSTR pDirectory = NULL, DWORD millisecondsTimeout = INFINITE)
{
	// _alloca allocates the memory on the stack, so I don't need to worry about cleaning it up
	// You could use new and then delete the buffer later
	TCHAR* pCmdLine = (TCHAR*) _alloca((lstrlen(pCommandLine) + 1) * sizeof(TCHAR));
	lstrcpy(pCmdLine, pCommandLine);

	STARTUPINFO startupInfo;
	memset(&startupInfo, 0, sizeof(startupInfo));
	startupInfo.cb = sizeof(startupInfo);

	PROCESS_INFORMATION processInfo;
	memset(&processInfo, 0, sizeof(processInfo));

	DWORD rval;

	if (CreateProcess(NULL, pCmdLine, NULL, NULL, FALSE, CREATE_DEFAULT_ERROR_MODE, NULL, pDirectory, &startupInfo, &processInfo))
	{
		rval = WaitForSingleObject(processInfo.hProcess, millisecondsTimeout);
	}
	else
	{
		rval = GetLastError();
	}

	CloseHandle(processInfo.hProcess);
	CloseHandle(processInfo.hThread);

	return rval;
}

gamefreak2291 wrote:

I never did get an answer to my initial question

Member 476468 wrote:

Windows SDK will not load with Visual Studio 2008

Member 476468 wrote:

Does anyone know how to solve this?

ForNow wrote:

I would assume the "this" pointer gets initialized after excuting the first contructer

#include <iostream>

class A
{
public:
   A(int x) { x_ = x; }
   int x_;
};

class B
{
public:
   B(A* a) { std::cout << a->x_ << std::endl; }
};

class C : public A, public B
{
public:
	C(int y) : A(y), B(static_cast<A*>(this)) {}
};

int main(int, char**)
{
   C c(33);
}