Pthread Creation and Termination

Example: Pthread Creation and Termination
gcc example.c -pthread

#include pthread.h
#include stdio.h
#define NUM_THREADS 5

void *PrintHello(void *threadid)
{
int tid;
tid = (int)threadid;
printf("Hello World! It's me, thread #%d!\n", tid);
pthread_exit(NULL);
}

int main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
pthread_t threads[NUM_THREADS];
int rc, t;
for(t=0; t<= NUM_THREADS; t++){
printf("In main: creating thread %d\n", t);
rc = pthread_create(&threads[t], NULL, PrintHello, (void *)t);
if (rc){
printf("ERROR; return code from pthread_create() is %d\n", rc);
exit(-1);
}
}
pthread_exit(NULL);
}