Boost thread test example, built and tested on Ubuntu 64-bit Linux.
//build it:
//g++ xxx.cpp -lboost_thread-mt
#include <boost/thread.hpp>
#include <iostream>
#include <boost/shared_ptr.hpp>
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;
void task1(int x) {
while(x){
cout << “Task 1: ” << x– << endl;
sleep(1);
}
}
struct Point{
int x, y;
Point(int xx, int yy) : x(xx), y(yy) {}
~Point() {
cout << “~Point” << endl;
}
};
struct task2 {
void operator() (boost::shared_ptr<Point>& p) {
int x = p->x;
while(x){
cout << “Task 2: ” << x– << endl;
sleep(1);
}
}
};
//
int main(int argc, char** argv) {
//int num = boost::thread::hardware_concurrency();
//cout << “hardware threads: ” << num << endl;
cout << “\n\n—task1—\n\n” << endl;
{
boost::thread thr1(task1, 10);
boost::shared_ptr<Point> p(new Point(10, 10));
boost::thread thr2(task2(), p);
//safe to reset here, of course you don’t have to
p.reset();
thr1.join();
thr2.join();
}
cout << “\n\n—end—\n\n” << endl;
return 0;
}