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Subj : Re: How to pass class-member function to pthread_create(....)?
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : David Schwartz
Date : Wed Jul 20 2005 02:05 pm


"David Hopwood" <david.nospam.hopwood@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message 
news:s_rDe.2925$Pf3.1694@fe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk...

> No relevant standard provides a guarantee that a conforming compiler will 
> have
> a -pthread option that enables pthreads.

    I never said it did.

> The nearest thing to that would be
> -lpthread in the options to the POSIX c89 and c99 commands (for C, not 
> C++).
> Note that the bugzilla entry is for a missing feature ("Severity: 
> enhancement"),
> not a bug in the normal sense, despite the bugzilla terminology which 
> calls all
> entries bugs.

    I'm sorry, I don't see what this has to do with anything. If we're not 
talking about a case where the platform supports pthreads and you know how 
to activate it, then what different does it make what 'pthread_create' does 
or does not do?

    DS

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