Subj : Re: How to pass class-member function to pthread_create(....)?
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : David Schwartz
Date : Mon Jul 18 2005 01:06 pm


"Vyacheslav Kononenko" <vyacheslav@kononenko.net> wrote in message 
news:1121694827.092690.187190@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...

> Hmm if its unsafe to use a different linkage function by a pointer, why
> C++ compiler does not warn at least? In ideal it should fail to compile
> when I try to assign incompatible pointers, shall it not?.

    It's inconvenient to generate a warning (it is just not easy to do). 
It's easy to make it just not work, but there's no point in bothering to do 
that on platform where it happens to be safe.

    DS

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