Re: [Boost-users] Casting a shared_ptr as a prototyped (void *)?

Richard Dingwall wrote:

On Jan 16, 2008 1:11 PM, Elli Barasch wrote:

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I'd like to pass a shared_ptr as the entry argument to a thread function via pthread_create. However, the entry argument is prototyped as void *. I can't simply cast the shared pointer as a (void *). How do I go about this?

Try passing:

static_cast(your_ptr.get())

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Super. Thanks for the quick response!