Re: [PATCH] MSVC: Windows-native implementation for subset of Pthreads API

From: Andrzej K. Haczewski <ahaczewski@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 4, 2009, 22:50 UTC
Message-ID: <4AF20534.2030004@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <40aa078e0911041341s1adbbf31t6961207ba9c7905b@mail.gmail.com>

Erik Faye-Lund pisze:

> Couldn't the windows version of pthread_create have a wrapper
> function, that corrected the calling convention, much like the
> function run_thread that start_async in run-command.c has?

Can't be done without allocations. I'd have to pass to that wrapping thread function an address of original function *and* an original argument, and there's no way to pack that as one void*.

-- Andrzej

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