On Wednesday 04 June 2008 16:10:33 Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> I know all this. So a pthread_t is 32 bits in most cases and
> 64 bits on Windows. So what ? It just shouldn't matter as long
> as you don't transfer binary data containing a pthread_t from
> one platform to the other.
>
> Just **don't cast it** and use pthread_t wherever the data is
> in fact a pthread_t. It will compile and work on all platforms
> that have pthread_t. That it is a 64-bit struct in some cases
> shouldn't matter, C functions accept a struct as a parameter
> and can also return a struct.
>
> BTW, on Linux pthread_t is not a pointer. It's a long int.
> Not that it should matter.

This means changing the API for this release, and tying the csound ABI to 
pthread's. If pthread decides to change pthread_t for some reason, then 
csound's ABI will change too.

-- 
Felipe Sateler