There are at least two things ‘spurious wakeup’ could mean: A thread blocked in pthread_cond_wait can return from the call even though no call to pthread_call_signal or pthread_cond_broadcast on the condition occurred. A thread blocked in pthread_cond_wait returns because of a call to pthread_cond_signal or pthread_cond_broadcast, however after reacquiring the mutex the underlying predicate is … Read more
It’s just the way that condition variables are (or were originally) implemented. The mutex is used to protect the condition variable itself. That’s why you need it locked before you do a wait. The wait will “atomically” unlock the mutex, allowing others access to the condition variable (for signalling). Then when the condition variable is … Read more
There is more than one way to define “memory leak”. In particular, there are two primary definitions of “memory leak” that are in common usage among programmers. The first commonly used definition of “memory leak” is, “Memory was allocated and was not subsequently freed before the program terminated.” However, many programmers (rightly) argue that certain … Read more
@Manuel was part way there. You can add the compiler option as well, like this: If you have CMake 3.1.0+, this becomes even easier: set(THREADS_PREFER_PTHREAD_FLAG ON) find_package(Threads REQUIRED) target_link_libraries(my_app PRIVATE Threads::Threads) If you are using CMake 2.8.12+, you can simplify this to: find_package(Threads REQUIRED) if(THREADS_HAVE_PTHREAD_ARG) target_compile_options(my_app PUBLIC “-pthread”) endif() if(CMAKE_THREAD_LIBS_INIT) target_link_libraries(my_app “${CMAKE_THREAD_LIBS_INIT}”) endif() Older CMake … Read more
-pthread tells the compiler to link in the pthread library as well as configure the compilation for threads. For example, the following shows the macros that get defined when the -pthread option gets used on the GCC package installed on my Ubuntu machine: $ gcc -pthread -E -dM test.c > dm.pthread.txt $ gcc -E -dM … Read more
Try: gcc -dumpspecs | grep pthread and look for anything that starts with %{pthread:. On my computer, this causes files to be compiled with -D_REENTRANT, and linked with -lpthread. On other platforms, this could differ. Use -pthread for most portability. Using _REENTRANT, on GNU libc, changes the way some libc headers work. As a specific … Read more
For Linux the correct command is: gcc -pthread -o term term.c In general, libraries should follow sources and objects on command line, and -lpthread is not an “option”, it’s a library specification. On a system with only libpthread.a installed, gcc -lpthread … will fail to link.
You can’t do it the way you’ve written it because C++ class member functions have a hidden this parameter passed in. pthread_create() has no idea what value of this to use, so if you try to get around the compiler by casting the method to a function pointer of the appropriate type, you’ll get a … Read more