Revision 3:681b2f7e1b41, committed 2013-06-29

Comitter:

lemniskata

Date:

Sat Jun 29 22:06:29 2013 +0000

Parent:

2:78d8f8cac107

Child:

4:a25f2646a1bc

Commit message:

Initializing and running multiple thread instances from the same function. All threads are stored in a list with their osThreadId's

Changed in this revision

--- a/Threads.lib	Sat Jun 29 21:19:53 2013 +0000
+++ b/Threads.lib	Sat Jun 29 22:06:29 2013 +0000
@@ -1,1 +1,1 @@
-http://mbed.org/users/lemniskata/code/Threads/#ecdd97ea3d3b
+http://mbed.org/users/lemniskata/code/Threads/#46b56c9086f2

--- a/main.cpp	Sat Jun 29 21:19:53 2013 +0000
+++ b/main.cpp	Sat Jun 29 22:06:29 2013 +0000
@@ -19,32 +19,23 @@
 }
 
 int main() {
-
-    //Create an array of pointers to threads
-     osThreadDef_t **my_threads=NULL;
+    ThreadList* my_threads=NULL; //List of all Initialized threads
+    ThreadList* thread; //pointer to the last created ThreadList element
      
-     //Initialize the first thread of the function Do()
-     if(initThread(&my_threads,Do)==0)
-     {
-        pc.printf("Thread creation faile\n");
-        return -1;
-     }
-     int i=1;
-     
-     //Start the first thread
-     osThreadCreate(my_threads[i-1],(void *) i);
-    while(1) {
-         i++; 
+    int i=0; 
+    while(1) 
+    {
+        //We want 6 instances of the Do() function to run in separate threads 
         if(i<6)
         {
-            //Reallocate memory for the next thread of the function Do()
-             if(reAlloc(&my_threads,Do,i)==0)
+            //Initialize a thread 
+            if(initThread(&my_threads,Do,&thread)==0)
             {
                 pc.printf("Thread creation faile\n");
                 return -1;
             }
-            //Start the next thread
-            osThreadCreate(my_threads[i-1],(void *) i);
+            //Start the thread and store the id
+            thread->id=osThreadCreate(thread->thread,(void *) i);
             i++;
         }
         wait(0.2);