This commit also reverts fecaa6aae8.
The Microsoft documentation says _beginthreadex and _endthreadex are
used to initialize the C/C++ runtime and are necessary when linking to
libcmt(d).lib (that is, when using the -MT or -MTd options). For regular
builds linking against the .dll runtime, there should be no impact.
Inspection of the CRT source code which gets installed with Visual
Studio or Windows SDK proves that.
It's preferable to use CreateThread directly as _endthreadex will try to
call FreeLibraryAndExitThread, which can cause a deadlock if we try to
wait for the thread to exit from a global destructor.
For -MT builds, since there can be no DLLs, it's not a problem to
continue to use _beginthreadex and follow Microsoft's recommendation.
Task-number: QTBUG-53031
Change-Id: Id5480807d25e49e78b79ffff144af62c3c59dfe0
Reviewed-by: Maurice Kalinowski <maurice.kalinowski@qt.io>
Reviewed-by: Friedemann Kleint <Friedemann.Kleint@qt.io>
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