printing odd and even number printing alternately using threads in C++

Question

Odd even number printing using thread I came across this question and wanted to discuss solution in C++ . What I can think of using 2 binary semaphores odd and even semapho

Answer 1

Please see below working code (VS2005)

#include 
#include 

#include 
#include 

#define MAX 100
int shared_value = 0;

CRITICAL_SECTION cs;

unsigned _stdcall even_thread_cs(void *p)
{

    for( int i = 0 ; i < MAX ; i++ )
    {
        EnterCriticalSection(&cs);

        if( shared_value % 2 == 0 )
        {
            printf("\n%d", i);
        }


        LeaveCriticalSection(&cs);

    }
    return 0;
}

unsigned _stdcall odd_thread_cs(void *p)
{
    for( int i = 0 ; i < MAX ; i++ )
    {
        EnterCriticalSection(&cs);

        if( shared_value % 2 != 0 )
        {
            printf("\n%d", i);
        }

        LeaveCriticalSection(&cs);  

    }

    return 0;
}


int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
     InitializeCriticalSection(&cs);

    _beginthreadex(NULL, NULL, even_thread_cs, 0,0, 0);
    _beginthreadex(NULL, NULL, odd_thread_cs, 0,0, 0);

    getchar();
    return 0;
}

Here, using shared variable shared_value, we are synchronizing the even_thread_cs and odd_thread_cs. Note that sleep is not used.