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Ervin Hegedüs <airween@gmail.com> writes:
> ...
What is used as thread id is platform dependent. Likely, it depends
on the thread support of the underlying C libary (i.e. the
operating system thread support).

Under Linux, thread ids seem to be addresses - i.e. very large
integers.