Passing Array as argument to a new thread in C

arrays, c, multithreading

Solution

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compile: gcc -o main main.c -lpthread

execute: ./main 2 5

output: 3

#include <pthread.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int average;

int size = 0;


void *calcAvg(void *arg);
int main(int argc, char *argv[]){
  /* initialize an array of the integers to be passed */
  int *nums = (int*)malloc((argc - 1)*sizeof(int));
  int i = 1;
  for(i = 1; i < argc ; i++){
    nums[i-1] = atoi(argv[i]);
    size++;
  }

  /* Thread Identifier */
  pthread_t avgThread;

  pthread_create(&avgThread, NULL, calcAvg, (void*)nums);

  pthread_join(avgThread, NULL);
  printf("average = %d \n",average);
  free(nums);

}
void *calcAvg(void *arg){
  int *val_p = (int *) arg;
  int sum = 0;
  int i = 0;
  for( i = 0; i < size; i++){
    sum += val_p[i];
  }
  average = sum / (size);
  pthread_exit(0);
}

Problem

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