/* A simple example with 4 threads */ #include #include double a[1000]; static void init() { int i; for(i=0;i<1000;i++) a[i] = (double)i; } static void *th(void *v) { double sum = 0.0; int i,j; for(j=0;j<1000;j++) for(i=0;i<1000;i++) sum += a[i]; *( (double*)v ) = sum; /* make sure that no threads is so fast that it finishes * before last thread is created, thus reusing the TID */ sleep(1); return 0; } int main() { pthread_t t[4]; double sum[4]; int i; init(); for(i=0;i<4;i++) pthread_create(&t[i], NULL, th, &sum[i]); for(i=0;i<4;i++) pthread_join(t[i], NULL); return 0; }