class Thread

Defined in: C4Threads.h

The Thread class encapsulates a thread of execution.

Definition

class Thread

Member Functions

`Thread::GetThreadSignal`	Returns the signal associated with the thread.
`Thread::SetThreadSignal`	Sets the signal associated with the thread.
`Thread::SetThreadPriority`	Sets the priority of a thread.
`Thread::Complete`	Indicates whether a thread has completed execution.
`Thread::Sleep`	Suspends the current thread for a period of time.
`Thread::Yield`	Yields the time slice for the current thread.

Constructor

Thread(ThreadProc *proc, void *data, unsigned long stack = 0, Signal *signal = nullptr);

Parameters

`proc`	The entry point for the thread.
`data`	A pointer to user-defined data that is passed to the thread's entry point.
`stack`	The thread's stack size in bytes. If this is 0, then the default stack size is used.
`signal`	The signal object to assign to the thread.

Description

The Thread class defines a platform-independent thread object that can be used to achieve multithreaded execution. When a new Thread object is constructed, its entry function, specified by the proc parameter begins executing immediately. The pointer passed into the data parameter is passed to the thread's entry function, which must have the following signature.

typedef void ThreadProc(const Thread *, void *);