Subj : Re: Thoughts about threads in C++
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Chris Thomasson
Date : Thu May 26 2005 07:35 pm

>>> 5. Coming back to the POSIXThread base class, it contains the static
>>> member which is used as a thread start routine. This may not compile on
>>> some platforms, since class members (even if static) cannot be made
>>> extern "C".
>
> True to some extent. In any case my answer would be get a half decent
> compiler. :)

Even a "half decent" C++ compiler doesn't have to define static functions as 
extern "C"...

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