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condition variable.</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
+ <qandaentry>
+ <question>
+ <para>Why doesn't the thread's ctor take at least a void* to pass
any
+ information along with the function? All other threading libs
support
+ that and it makes Boost.Threads inferiour. </para>
+ </question>
+ <answer>
+ <para>There is no need, because Boost.Threads are superiour! First
+ thing is that its ctor doesn't take a function but a functor. That
+ means that you can pass an object with an overloaded operator() and
+ include additional data as members in that object. Beware though
that
+ this object is copied, use boost::ref to prevent that. Secondly,
even
+ a boost::function<void (void)> can carry parameters, you only have
to
+ use boost::bind() to create it from any function and bind its
+ parameters.</para>
+ <para>That is also why Boost.Threads are superiour, because they
+ don't require you to pass a type-unsafe void pointer. Rather, you
can
+ use the flexible Boost.Functions to create a thread entry out of
+ anything that can be called.</para>
+ </answer>
+ </qandaentry>
</qandaset>
</section>
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