Subj : Re: How to pass class-member function to pthread_create(....)?
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Ian
Date : Tue Jul 19 2005 06:05 pm

Vyacheslav Kononenko wrote:
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> David Schwartz wrote:
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>>"Vyacheslav Kononenko" <vyacheslav@kononenko.net> wrote in message
>>news:1121719814.285338.314970@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
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>>>Which standard provides this guarantee?
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>>    The C++ standard provides the guarantee that extern "C" gives C linkage.
>>The pthreads standard gives the guarantee that pthread_create takes
>>functions with C linkage.
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> 
> I am sorry, but I would like to see what POSIX says about C linkage in
> pthread_create, not your comments on that. Can you make a quote?
> 
> 
Oh come on, this is purely a language issue between C and C++, nothing 
to do with POSIX.  pthread_create is a C language interface function, so 
you pass it another C language function, not a C++ or Java or anything else.

That's exactly what extern "C" does in C++, it declares that a function 
is vanilla C.

Try passing a static member with a pedantic C++ compiler.

Ian

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