Partial patch from SF #452266, by Jason Petrone.
This changes Pythread_start_thread() to return the thread ID, or -1
for an error. (It's technically an incompatible API change, but I
doubt anyone calls it.)
diff --git a/Python/thread_wince.h b/Python/thread_wince.h
index 3790bda..b5129b2 100644
--- a/Python/thread_wince.h
+++ b/Python/thread_wince.h
@@ -22,10 +22,10 @@
/*
* Thread support.
*/
-int PyThread_start_new_thread(void (*func)(void *), void *arg)
+long PyThread_start_new_thread(void (*func)(void *), void *arg)
{
long rv;
- int success = 0;
+ int success = -1;
dprintf(("%ld: PyThread_start_new_thread called\n", PyThread_get_thread_ident()));
if (!initialized)
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
rv = _beginthread(func, 0, arg); /* use default stack size */
if (rv != -1) {
- success = 1;
+ success = 0;
dprintf(("%ld: PyThread_start_new_thread succeeded:\n", PyThread_get_thread_ident()));
}