void *PrintHello(void *threadid)
{
long tid;
// ***Arg sent in main is retrieved ***
tid = (long)threadid;
printf("Hello World! It's me, thread #%ld!\n", tid);
pthread_exit(NULL);
}
int main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
pthread_t threads[NUM_THREADS];
int rc;
long t;
for(t=0; t<NUM_THREADS; t++){
//*** t will be type cast to void* and send as argument.
rc = pthread_create(&threads[t], NULL, PrintHello, (void *)t);
if (rc){
printf("ERROR; return code from pthread_create() is %d\n", rc);
exit(-1);
}
}
/* Last thing that main() should do */
pthread_exit(NULL);
}