On 2012.05.03 23:27, Sean McBride wrote:
> On Thu, 3 May 2012 23:20:09 +0100, Pete Batard said:
>
>> +#elif defined(__APPLE__)
>> +    ret = mach_thread_self();
>> +    mach_port_deallocate(mach_task_self(), ret);
>
> Perhaps I missed an earlier discussion, but why drop to the mach level?  
> Wouldn't pthread_self() be more portable?

The problem with pthread_self() is it returns a pthread_t, which, from 
what I could see, is not guaranteed to be an integer (can be an opaque 
struct [1]). Since we want to display it, we need an integer value.

Regards,

/Pete

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1759794/how-to-print-pthread-t

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