Re: Address of static method

From:
Thorsten Kiefer <thorstenkiefer@gmx.de>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Fri, 19 May 2006 21:30:13 +0200
Message-ID:
<e4l6bo$5jl$1@news01.versatel.de>
mlimber wrote:

Thorsten Kiefer wrote:

Hi,
my compiler tells me that the address of a static method will always
evaluate to true (which is 1). Why that ? How can i get the address of a
static method ?
I'm using gcc3.


It should only evaluate to true if you are testing it. Otherwise it
should simply be a non-zero address. Please post a minimal but complete
sample of code that demonstrates the problem (cf.
http://parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/how-to-post.html#faq-5.8).

Cheers! --M


thread.hpp :
#include <pthread.h>
#include <iostream>

namespace std {

class Thread {
        protected:
                pthread_t pthread;
                
                static void *start_routine(void *x);
                static void test() {};
                
        public:
                Thread(){
                        cout << &start_routine << endl;
                        cout << &test << endl;
                        int r = pthread_create(&pthread,0,start_routine,this);
                }
                virtual int run() = 0;
};

}

threadtest.cpp :
#include <thread.hpp>
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

class Thread1 : public Thread {
        public:
                int run() {
                        for(int i = 0;i < 10;++i)
                                cout << i << endl;
                }
};

int main(int argc,char **argv){
        Thread1 t1;
}

Result:
1
1
Segmentation fault

Greets
tk

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