how to cast?

[Andreas Müller]

i have a problem with threads and casts,
I created a thread
pthread_create(&grab_thread, NULL, grab_image, (void*)&camera);

and my function is like this:
void *grab_image(void *camera)
{..}

originally the type of camera is "struct Camera" but pthreads only wants
voids. now I need to cast the "void *camera" to "struct Camera *camera"
in the functions body. but how? or is the pthread_create wrong?

[Srini]

void *grab_image(void *parm)
{
Camera *camera = static_cast<Camera *>(parm);
// use camera
pthread_exit(0); // or whatever return value you might want
}

pthread_create(&thread_id, NULL, grab_image, (void *)(&camera));

HTH
Srini
Andreas Müller wrote:

i have a problem with threads and casts,
I created a thread
pthread_create(&grab_thread, NULL, grab_image, (void*)&camera);

and my function is like this:
void *grab_image(void *camera)
{..}

originally the type of camera is "struct Camera" but pthreads only wants
voids. now I need to cast the "void *camera" to "struct Camera *camera"
in the functions body. but how? or is the pthread_create wrong?

[Eric Lilja]

"Andreas Müller" wrote:

i have a problem with threads and casts,
I created a thread
pthread_create(&grab_thread, NULL, grab_image, (void*)&camera);

and my function is like this:
void *grab_image(void *camera)
{..}

originally the type of camera is "struct Camera" but pthreads only wants
voids. now I need to cast the "void *camera" to "struct Camera *camera" in
the functions body. but how? or is the pthread_create wrong?

void * grab_image(void *arg) /* Note: renamed parameter)
{
Camera *my_camera = (Camera*)arg; /* Or appropriate C++-style cast */
}

Note, make sure you pass a pointer to an object of type Camera when you
create thread and make sure that pointer is still valid for the life-time of
the thread. And, btw, pthreads are not part of the C++ standard so next time
I suggest making an example program exhibiting your problem using standard
constructs only.

/ Eric

[Ron Natalie]

Andreas Müller wrote:

i have a problem with threads and casts,
I created a thread
pthread_create(&grab_thread, NULL, grab_image, (void*)&camera);

and my function is like this:
void *grab_image(void *camera)
{..}

originally the type of camera is "struct Camera" but pthreads only wants
voids. now I need to cast the "void *camera" to "struct Camera *camera"
in the functions body. but how? or is the pthread_create wrong?

You don't need the void* cast above.
To cast it back:
void* v_camera = ...;

Camera* camera = static_cast<Camera*>(v_camera);