Re: Object oriented callbacks and differences in member vs non-member function pointers

From:
Carl Barron <cbarron413@adelphia.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Fri, 8 Jun 2007 23:55:34 CST
Message-ID:
<080620072100129684%cbarron413@adelphia.net>
In article <1181326689.777212.184660@p47g2000hsd.googlegroups.com>,
Faraz Babar <fbabar@gmail.com> wrote:

      union call_back
      {
              void (thread<task>::*filler)();
              void * (*address)(void *);
      } routine;

public:
      thread(task& p_worker) : worker(p_worker)
      {
              routine.filler = &thread<task>::go;
              pthread_attr_init(&attr);
      }

      void start()
      {
              pthread_create (&id, &attr, routine.address, this);
      }

  It appears as if you want to call a member function filler of a class
thread<class> as a free function. Storing one type in a union and
accesing it as another is undefinded behavior, best avoided.

What are you mean by these two 'pseudo' function pointers with
different return types? I see no virtual's here so using a static
member function seems easiest, assuming that the function recieving the
call back function is in c++ and the void * is a thread<task> * and the
receiving function is 'cast in stone'.

template <class task>
class thread
{
    typedef void (thread::PMF)();
    PMF call_me;

public:
    static void *address(void *p)
    {
       thread<task> *p_thread = p;
       p_thread->*call_me();
       return 0;
    }
// ...
};

done and nothing exoctic.

If this is not the case then more indirection is neeeded. and not via
unions:)

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