[PD-dev] How to pass indeterminate args to a thread
Martin Peach
martin.peach at sympatico.ca
Sat Feb 28 04:08:10 CET 2009
Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Martin Peach wrote:
>
>> You called pthread_create() with &threadargs:
>> ret = pthread_create( &thread1, NULL, mythread, &threadArgs);
>> when you probably should just use threadargs, since it's already a
>> pointer.
>> Or else you need to dereference the handle:
>> post("My symbol: %s",
>> ((*(struct floatArgStruct**))threadArgs)->s->s_name);
>
> No, it was supposed to be just threadArgs, but the type of threadArgs
> changed while writing the code, as I made him change it from a global
> variable to a malloc. In the end, it turns out it wasn't quite useful,
> because there's only going to be one extra thread, after all.
>
Too bad, you could have tested if the compiler could handle types
changing while the code was being written.
Martin
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