Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3CC71822.5040900@mip.sdu.dk> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 22:40:02 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_M=F8ller_Fonseca?= Organization: The Maersk Institute, University of Southern Denmark User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: pthread_t and strict standards compliance Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Hi, I was porting my framework to Cygwin and noticed that pthread_t is a typedef of a void pointer. According to "The Single UNIX Specification, Version 2" and "IEEE Std 1003.1-2001" pthread_t must be defined as an arithmetic type (i.e. either a floating-point type or an integral type). The pointer type is NOT an arithmetic type even though some arithmetic operators may be applied to a pointer. René -- B.Sc. in Computer Systems Engineering The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute for Production Technology University of Southern Denmark http://www.mip.sdu.dk/~fonseca -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/