[Boost-users] Casting a shared_ptr as a prototyped (void *)?

From: Elli Barasch (comptonsw_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-01-15 19:11:59

I'd like to pass a shared_ptr as the entry argument to a thread function 
via pthread_create.  However,
the entry argument is prototyped as void *.    I can't simply cast the 
shared pointer as a (void *).   How do I go about this?