Marcello Puligheddu wrote:
In http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_47_0/doc/html/thread/thread_management.html
Thread Constructor with arguments http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_47_0/doc/html/thread/thread_management.html#...
[...] Note:
Currently up to nine additional arguments |a1|to |a9|can be specified in addition to the function |f|.
But in
Launching threads http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_47_0/doc/html/thread/thread_management.html#...
is clearly stated
"There is an unspecified limit on the number of additional arguments that can be passed."
AFAIK, for C++11 implementations of std::thread, based on 30.2.1.2 of [1], the constructor is to make use of variadic templates. I believe that is where the term "unspecified" originates. For pre C++11 implementations, this can only be achieved through multiple overloads with a varying number of parameters, which would inevitably have a trivial upper-limit. [1] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2497.html#thread.th...