Re: [LTP] Request: help from pthreads expert

[Paul L. <pl...@au...>]

On 27 Sep 2001 14:10:34 -0500, Nathan Straz wrote:
> Could someone who is an expert on pthreads, please grep the sources for
> pthread_create and double check their usage?  
> 
> I have concerns with many of the cases that try to pass integers at the
> last argument in pthread_create where the prototype uses a void *.
> Integers and pointers are different sizes on ia64.  Besides causing lots
> of warning, I suspect this might be causing some real trouble.  What is
> the proper way to pass thread parameters through a void *?

All you really need to do is typecast it.  IIRC pth_str03 is done like
this and passes parameters under testcases/kernel/sched/pthreads.
Usually this is not a big deal, but as we look at portability it could
start to matter.  I'll try to clean them up, please let me know which
one's you've found like this.

-Paul Larson