[samyx]

Hey everyone,

I am just starting to learn about threads, and I am trying to write a thread to compute fibonacci and return an indicated fibonacci number. I have to use pthread_join to wait and collect the returned value, and then print it.

Hereis what I have so far, but I am stuck, it keeps giving me the error
" fibon.c: (.text+0x65): undefined reference to `fibonacci'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status"

Please help me!

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

/* compute sucessive fibonnaci numbers.*/

void* fibonacci(void* arg);
main()
{

        pthread_t thread;
        int num1 = 0;
        int num2 = 1;;
        int ans;
        int which_fibo;

        int counter, numPrint;
        numPrint = 10;

        for(counter= 0; counter < numPrint; ++counter){
 ans = (num1 + num2);
                num1 = num2;
                num2 = ans;
        }


        /* start the computing thread up to the number you want to return*/
        pthread_create(&thread, NULL, &fibonacci, (void*)&which_fibo);

        /* wait for the fibonacci thread to complete */
         pthread_join(thread, (void*)&ans);

        /* print the number in the position requested */
        printf("the  number is %d.\n",which_fibo, ans);

 }

[samyx]

Some progress...Now my program is printing 2 positions ahead. For exemplo:

0 1 1 2 3 5 8 13

If I select to print position 3, the result would be 3.
If I select to print position 4, the result would be 5.ow

How can I fix this problem, and how can I return the value if the position selected is 1 or 2?

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

/* compute sucessive fibonnaci numbers.*/

void* fibonacci(void* arg){
int num1 = 1;
int num2 = 1;;
int ans;
int maxfibo=10;
int n = *((int*) arg);
int is_num = 1;

int counter;

for(counter= 0; counter < (maxfibo-2); ++counter){

ans = (num1 + num2);
num1 = num2;
num2 = ans;
if (is_num) {
if (--n==0)
return (void*) ans;
}
}
}
int main ()
{
pthread_t thread;
int which_fibo = 5;
int number;


/* start the computing thread up to the number you want to return*/
pthread_create(&thread, NULL, &fibonacci, (void*)&which_fibo);

/* wait for the fibonacci thread to complete */
pthread_join(thread, (void*)&number);



/* print the number in the position requested */
printf("The number is %d.\n", number);

return 0;

}