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Re: Macro for pthread_create()

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jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) writes:
[...]
> If you never need to use the thread ID (i.e. what's returned via
> the first argument) perhaps this is what you're looking for:
>
> #define THREAD( func, parm ) \
>     { pthread_t thread_id; \
>       pthread_create( &thread_id, NULL, func, ( void * ) ( parm ) ); }
>
> The curly braces are just there for restricting the life-time
> of the 'thread_id' variable (it "goes out of scope" at the
> closing '}').
[...]

A macro that expands to a statement should use the "do { ... } while
(0)" idiom:

#define THREAD( func, parm ) \
    do { \
        pthread_t thread_id; \
        pthread_create( &thread_id, NULL, (func), ( void * ) ( parm ) ); \
    while (0)


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Macro for pthread_create() daniele@father.nostromo.wy (daniele.g) - 2012-01-10 19:21 +0100
  Re: Macro for pthread_create() jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2012-01-10 19:02 +0000
    Re: Macro for pthread_create() jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2012-01-10 20:18 +0000
      Re: Macro for pthread_create() Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-01-10 20:29 +0000
        Re: Macro for pthread_create() jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2012-01-10 21:03 +0000
  Re: Macro for pthread_create() James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-01-10 14:14 -0500
    Re: Macro for pthread_create() Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2012-01-10 20:44 +0000
    Re: Macro for pthread_create() Anand Hariharan <mailto.anand.hariharan@gmail.com> - 2012-01-13 07:18 -0800
  Re: Macro for pthread_create() Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2012-01-10 19:15 +0000
    Re: Macro for pthread_create() daniele@mother.nostromo.wy (daniele.g) - 2012-01-10 23:01 +0100
      Re: Macro for pthread_create() Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-01-10 22:23 +0000
        Re: Macro for pthread_create() Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-01-10 15:23 -0800
      Re: Macro for pthread_create() jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2012-01-10 22:27 +0000
        Re: Macro for pthread_create() Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-01-10 15:25 -0800
      Re: Macro for pthread_create() Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-01-10 17:31 -0500
        Re: Macro for pthread_create() daniele@mother.nostromo.wy (daniele.g) - 2012-01-11 00:04 +0100
          Re: Macro for pthread_create() James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-01-10 18:17 -0500
          Re: Macro for pthread_create() Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-01-10 18:29 -0500
      Re: Macro for pthread_create() Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-01-11 11:54 +1300
        Re: Macro for pthread_create() daniele@father.nostromo.wy (daniele.g) - 2012-01-11 10:09 +0100
          Re: Macro for pthread_create() Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-01-11 22:20 +1300
          Re: Macro for pthread_create() James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-01-11 11:26 -0500
            Re: Macro for pthread_create() daniele@father.nostromo.wy (daniele.g) - 2012-01-12 12:07 +0100
              Re: Macro for pthread_create() James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-01-12 09:19 -0500
                Re: Macro for pthread_create() Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-01-12 20:34 -0500
            Re: Macro for pthread_create() daniele@father.nostromo.wy (daniele.g) - 2012-01-12 11:52 +0100
          Re: Macro for pthread_create() Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2012-01-11 18:46 +0000
            Re: Macro for pthread_create() blp@cs.stanford.edu (Ben Pfaff) - 2012-01-11 11:12 -0800

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