Philippe A. Bouchard said: > William E. Kempf wrote: > > [...] > >>> Thanks... but is it possible to obtain the initial address of the >>> functor object portably, given the current thread object? >> >> No, and why would you want to? Especially since it will be a pointer >> to a _copy_ of the functor? > > Because I would like to access specific information of the newly created > thread. Being able to match this information with the current thread > would require you to have some pointer to the class functor.
As already pointed out, to associate data with a thread you use thread_specific_ptr. BTW, you still have to remember that the functor is copied, and data passed to/in the functor is not considered part of the thread in any event. -- William E. Kempf _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
