How can I pass a member function where a free function is expected?

Question

The question is the following: consider this piece of code:

#include 


class aClass
{
public:
    void aTest(int a, int b)
    {
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Answer 1

You can stop banging your heads now. Here is the wrapper for the member function to support existing functions taking in plain C functions as arguments. thread_local directive is the key here.

http://cpp.sh/9jhk3

// Example program
#include 
#include 

using namespace std;

typedef int FooCooker_ (int);

// Existing function
extern "C" void cook_10_foo (FooCooker_ FooCooker) {
    cout << "Cooking 10 Foo ..." << endl;
    cout << "FooCooker:" << endl;
    FooCooker (10);
}

struct Bar_ {
    Bar_ (int Foo = 0) : Foo (Foo) {};
    int cook (int Foo) {
        cout << "This Bar got " << this->Foo << endl;
        if (this->Foo >= Foo) {
            this->Foo -= Foo;
            cout << Foo << " cooked" << endl;
            return Foo;
        } else {
            cout << "Can't cook " <<  Foo << endl;
            return 0;
        }
    }
    int Foo = 0;
};

// Each Bar_ object and a member function need to define
// their own wrapper with a global thread_local object ptr
// to be called as a plain C function.
thread_local static Bar_* BarPtr = NULL;
static int cook_in_Bar (int Foo) {
    return BarPtr->cook (Foo);
}

thread_local static Bar_* Bar2Ptr = NULL;
static int cook_in_Bar2 (int Foo) {
    return Bar2Ptr->cook (Foo);
}

int main () {
  BarPtr = new Bar_ (20);
  cook_10_foo (cook_in_Bar);

  Bar2Ptr = new Bar_ (40);
  cook_10_foo (cook_in_Bar2);

  delete BarPtr;
  delete Bar2Ptr;
  return 0;
}

Please comment on any issues with this approach.

Other answers fail to call existing plain C functions: http://cpp.sh/8exun