Re: Creating thread in C++

From:
James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sun, 6 Jan 2008 03:24:32 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
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On Dec 26 2007, 7:11 pm, "AnonMail2...@gmail.com"
<AnonMail2...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Dec 26, 9:11 am, mthread <rjk...@gmail.com> wrote:

  I am trying to create a thread by doing some thing like this.

class myclass
{
  private :
         .....
   public :
           void* My_function(void* voidPtr);
}

int main()
{
pthread_t tId;
myclass obj;
pthread_create(&tId, NULL, obj.My_function, NULL);
}

I get compilation error when i do this. I have a good experience in
multithreaded programming using C. But this is the first time I am
trying to do it in C++. I might be naive. I would like to know how I
can create a thread in C++(using C posix threads).


Making your function static or free standing (not part of a
class) should do the trick to make it look like a "C"
function.


I'm not sure what you mean be "look like a C function". The
function must have the type ``extern "C" void* f( void* )'', and
a member function cannot have that type.

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