Re: Boost threads and overloaded call operator

From:
"Alf P. Steinbach" <alfps@start.no>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:06:39 +0200
Message-ID:
<h1ov5q$9ah$1@news.eternal-september.org>
* pauldepstein@att.net:

On Jun 22, 11:31 pm, "Alf P. Steinbach" <al...@start.no> wrote:

* pauldepst...@att.net:

#include <boost\thread\thread.hpp>
#include <iostream>
class SayHello
{
public:
    void operator()()
    {
         std::cout<<"I expected this line to occur once, not
twice!"<<std::endl;
    }
};
int main()
{ SayHello x;
    boost::thread t((x));
    t.join();

1.

   x();

2.

}


Sorry Alf, but I still don't understand.
If you omit the x(); line, I don't understand how the operator()() is
being called.
Please could you explain why the first three lines of code implement
the operator()()


The code doesn't implement the operator, it calls the operator.

It's what a Boost thread does, like a Java thread calls run() or whatever.

Simply don't create any threads if you don't want anything done in threads.

Cheers & hth.,

- Alf

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