Re: [vdr] Thread start functions and external C linkage (VDR starts it's threads "incorrectly")

On 2/12/06, Sascha Volkenandt (ML) lists@magoa.net wrote:

Klaus Schmidinger wrote:

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This would allow anybody to do

cThread t; StartThread(&t);

which I don't think would be a good thing to do.

Any ideas how to prevent this from happening?

It's perfectly okay to declare StartThread

extern "C" static void *StartThread(cThread *Thread);

Shouldn't a nameless namepsace be used here? gcc 3.4.3 does not like extern "C" static at all (error: multiple storage classes in declaration of ...). i.e., in thread.c:

namespace { extern "C" void *StartThread(cThread *Thread) { .... } }