Re: Using function pointers in c++
MattWilson.6185@gmail.com wrote:
Hi!
I have had this problem several times before, and each time I have
been turned back forced to find another way. But not this time...
How can you cast a Class::* into a void *.
For this example I am using pthread and to start a thread you need to
pass it a void* (*)(void*)
however I have the run function inside a class:
class ThreadBase {
public:
ThreadBase() {}
virtual void run() = 0;
void start_thread(){pthread_create( &__thread_id, 0, this->run, 0 );}
You just can't do this. The pthread_create function expects a C
function of the form void* (*)(void*). Any class member function will
have a hidden this parameter, which isn't a void*. A class member
function has C++ linkage.
The only correct form is to declare a function extern "C" and pass that
function to pthread_create.
extern "C" void start( void* );
void start( void *p )
{
ThreadBase *base = static_cast<ThreadBase*>(p);
base->run();
}
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