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From: "Andrzej K. Haczewski" <ahaczewski@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MSVC: Windows-native implementation for subset of   
 Pthreads API
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:50:28 +0100
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Erik Faye-Lund pisze:
> Couldn't the windows version of pthread_create have a wrapper
> function, that corrected the calling convention, much like the
> function run_thread that start_async in run-command.c has?

Can't be done without allocations. I'd have to pass to that wrapping
thread function an address of original function *and* an original
argument, and there's no way to pack that as one void*.

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Andrzej