Re: [boost] [thread] explicit constructor in thread

From: Felipe Magno de Almeida (felipe.m.almeida_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-14 04:14:16

On 9/13/05, Matt Hurd <matt.hurd_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> any particular reason why the function sig accepted is
>  function < void ( void ) >
> instead of
>  function < void ( void * ) >

That's because if you need to pass any arguments to the thread
function, you can use boost::bind. Which makes it more readable and
type-safe. No need to have a void* parameter in the thread function.

> 
> matt
> 

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