tests/include/rw_thread.h

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#ifndef RW_RWTHREAD_H_INCLUDED
#define RW_RWTHREAD_H_INCLUDED

#include <testdefs.h>


extern "C" {

struct rw_thread_attr_t;

struct rw_thread_t
{
    long  threadno;   // 0-based unique thread number
    long  id;         // thread id
    void* handle;     // thread handle
};


// same as POSIX pthread_create()
_TEST_EXPORT int
rw_thread_create (rw_thread_t*,
                  rw_thread_attr_t*,
                  void* (*)(void*),
                  void*);


// same as POSIX pthread_join()
_TEST_EXPORT int
rw_thread_join (rw_thread_t, void**);


// create a pool of nthreads, passing each a successive element
// of argarray as argument (if non-null) and filling the tidarray
// array with their id's; if (tidarray == 0), waits for all
// threads to join and fills the aragarray with the result
// returned from each thread
// if (nthreads == SIZE_MAX), sets nthreads to the positive result
// of rw_get_processors() plus 1, or to 2 otherwise
// returns 0 on success, or a non-zero value indicating the thread
// number that failed to create on error
_TEST_EXPORT int
rw_thread_pool (rw_thread_t*      /* tidarray */,
                _RWSTD_SIZE_T     /* nthreads */,
                rw_thread_attr_t* /* attr */,
                void* (*)(void*)  /* thr_proc */,
                void**            /* argarray */);

// returns the number of logical processors/cores on the system,
// or -1 on error
_TEST_EXPORT int
rw_get_cpus ();


}   // extern "C"

#endif   // RW_RWTHREAD_H_INCLUDED