using namespace GOOGLE_NAMESPACE;
void* DieInThread(void*) {
- fprintf(stderr, "0x%lx is dying\n", pthread_self());
+ // We assume pthread_t is an integral number or a pointer, rather
+ // than a complex struct. In some environments, pthread_self()
+ // returns an uint64 but in some other environments pthread_self()
+ // returns a pointer. Hence we use C-style cast here, rather than
+ // reinterpret/static_cast, to support both types of environments.
+ fprintf(stderr, "0x%lx is dying\n", (long)pthread_self());
// Use volatile to prevent from these to be optimized away.
volatile int a = 0;
volatile int b = 1 / a;