[ECOS] cyg_create_thread question

[Stephan Bourduas]

On October 29, 2004 06:06 am, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 06:00:19AM -0400, Stephan Bourduas wrote:
> > This is more of a C/C++ question.  Can someone tell me
> > exactly what "new((void *)thread)" thread does?  The code
> > is taken from kapi.cxx.
>
> The normal usage of new is that it allocated the memory for the object
> on the heap. This usage you pass the memory for the object to new.
>
>         Andrew

Quick followup question:  Why is "thread" being cast to a void pointer?  I did 
some playing around and reading up on "placement new" and I found no 
requirement to cast to (void *).  A simple example I found was:

        int* x = new int;
        int* y = new(x) int(1);

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