[Qt-interest] Running the application thread on class that subclasses QThread?

[Stephan Rose]

As the subject states, I'm having the need to run the main application on a different thread class than QThread. The class subclasses QThread of course.

Here's why:

I'm working on a bunch of lock-free container implementations using Hazard Pointers. In order for that to work though each thread needs its own local storage of these pointers and therein lies the problem.

The simplest way that isn't compiler-dependent to do this is to simply subclass QThread, create a new thread called HazardThread or something and use it instead. That way I can get access to each thread's necessary information just using HazardThread::currentThread() and call it a day.

However, my main application/gui thread would still be just a QThread which means that I can't access the containers from that thread. That creates a bit of a problem...

Any ideas anyone?

Thanks,

Stephan