Re: [Boost-users] Casting a shared_ptr as a prototyped (void *)?

On Jan 16, 2008 1:11 PM, Elli Barasch <comptonsw@comcast.net> wrote:

I'd like to pass a shared_ptr as the entry argument to a thread function via pthread_create. However, the entry argument is prototyped as void *. I can't simply cast the shared pointer as a (void *). How do I go about this?

Try passing: static_cast<void *>(your_ptr.get()) Richard