Mac/iPhone: Is there a way to get a thread identifier without using Objective-C?

Question

Is there a way to get any kind of thread identifier of the currently running thread without resorting to Objective-C\'s NSThread.

I\'m improving our custom debug tracing

Answer 1

I found a one way that is enough to get some kind of unique identifier for trace output.

pthread_mach_thread_np can be used to get a thread identifier, an unsigned int on iPhone.

mach_port_t tid = pthread_mach_thread_np(pthread_self());

Apparently this is a same thread id that is used in NSLog output.