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Re: thread: fix some gcc warnings


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: thread: fix some gcc warnings
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 07:07:41 -0600
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On 07/08/2011 05:27 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> The statement
>   gl_thread_t t = gl_thread_self ();
> gives a gcc warning about assignment from a pointer to an integer. This fixes
> it:
> 
> 
> 2011-07-08  Bruno Haible  <address@hidden>
> 
>       thread: Avoid gcc warnings when using gl_thread_self().
>       * lib/glthread/thread.h (gl_thread_self): Return a pthread_t, not a
>       'void *'.
>       (gl_thread_self_pointer): Update.
> 
> --- lib/glthread/thread.h.orig        Fri Jul  8 13:22:25 2011
> +++ lib/glthread/thread.h     Fri Jul  8 13:11:25 2011
> @@ -161,9 +161,9 @@
>  extern const gl_thread_t gl_null_thread;
>  # else
>  #  define gl_thread_self() \
> -     (pthread_in_use () ? (void *) pthread_self () : NULL)
> +     (pthread_in_use () ? pthread_self () : (pthread_t) NULL)

This not portable.  POSIX allows pthread_t to be a non-pointer type, so
you can't necessarily cast NULL to pthread_t.

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Eric Blake   address@hidden    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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