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From: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@attbi.com>
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Subject: Re: Question about OpenSSL id_function() and pthreads
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On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 02:49:13PM +0900, Alexander Nedotsukov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I saw you question in freebsd-threads@.
> Just if you still looking for a right answer (in C++ terms of course) 
> here it is.
> 
> static unsigned long
> idFunction()
> {
> #ifdef _WIN32
>    return static_cast<unsigned long>(GetCurrentThreadId());
> #else
>    return reinterpret_cast<unsigned long>(pthread_self());
> #endif
> }


Thanks for this advice.  Your advice is the same given to me
by the authors of the software that I am porting to FreeBSD:

http://www.zeroc.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?threadid=122&goto=newpost

The authors of that software didn't like the idea of unconditionally
using a C-style cast for the results of pthread_self().

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Craig Rodrigues        
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