Re: NSThread Comparisons

[Wolfgang Lux]

Justin Kendrick wrote:

> I'm writing a class which needs to determine the current thread and  
> get an object tied to that thread.  I'd like to use an NSDictionary  
> keyed by an NSThread object, but NSThread instances not copyable  
> (and I can't find any good documentation on how NSDictionary  
> matches non-NSString keys anyway).  Beyond that, I thought that I  
> might use an NSValue created with valueWithUnretainedObject:, but  
> that feels really hackish.

Your approach looks backwards to me. Each thread has a mutable  
dictionary where you can save thread specific data (cf. NSThread's - 
threadDictionary method). Why don't you save your objects there (with  
an appropriate key) and use +currentThread to determine the current  
thread?

Wolfgang