I'm trying to create a class which starts a thread-instance of a one of its member methods. When I do in main:
test myinstance;
std::thread mythread(myinstance);
then things compile. But using the following construction:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <thread>
class test
{
std::thread *pt;
public:
test()
{
pt = new std::thread(this);
}
void operator()() const
{
printf("thread start\n");
sleep(5);
printf("thread end\n");
}
};
int main(int arg, char *argv[])
{
test ptest;
sleep(10);
return 0;
}
I get the following error:
folkert@here:~$ g++ -std=c++0x test.cpp In file included from /usr/include/c++/4.6/thread:39:0, from test.cpp:3: /usr/include/c++/4.6/functional: In member function 'void std::_Bind_result<_Result, _Functor(_Bound_args ...)>::__call(std::tuple<_Args ...>&&, std::_Index_tuple<_Indexes ...>, typename std::_Bind_result<_Result, _Functor(_Bound_args ...)>::__enable_if_void<_Res>::type) [with _Res = void, _Args = {}, int ..._Indexes = {}, _Result = void, _Functor = test*, _Bound_args = {}, typename std::_Bind_result<_Result, _Functor(_Bound_args ...)>::__enable_if_void<_Res>::type = int]': /usr/include/c++/4.6/functional:1378:24: instantiated from 'std::_Bind_result<_Result, _Functor(_Bound_args ...)>::result_type std::_Bind_result<_Result, _Functor(_Bound_args ...)>::operator()(_Args&& ...) [with _Args = {}, _Result = void, _Functor = test*, _Bound_args = {}, std::_Bind_result<_Result, _Functor(_Bound_args ...)>::result_type = void]' /usr/include/c++/4.6/thread:117:13: instantiated from 'void std::thread::_Impl<_Callable>::_M_run() [with _Callable = std::_Bind_result]' test.cpp:28:1: instantiated from here /usr/include/c++/4.6/functional:1287:4: error: '((std::_Bind_result*)this)->std::_Bind_result::_M_f' cannot be used as a function
So my guess is that it won't work this way. My question now is: how can I, using std::thread, let a class start a thread of one of its own methods?