C++'s Multithreading: Return Value

Welcome to the Cow Corporation's series of videos about software engineering. The topic of this video is returning a value from a thread in C++. Prerequisite Knowledge: Table of Contents (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFvHtpPPV_k) Desktop Apps (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NO4APs4Io8) Desktop Apps→C++ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNwIlsb9wqs) Desktop Apps→C++→std (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_ii0Lqqz8Y) Previous Video in this Series: Desktop Apps→C++→std→Multithreading→Events (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRnFGWCAgfM) Example Source Code: Return-value-setter and return-value-getter (https://wandbox.org/permlink/pcfUoUdYH0XgCDuX) Hiding the return-value-setter (https://wandbox.org/permlink/2Ibmc73kSPivUcsu) Hiding other thread-creation details (https://wandbox.org/permlink/tfcmj1nrHmPN64q2) Next Video in this Series: Desktop Apps→C++→std→Multithreading→Semaphores→Resource Management (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkqZ5TNRqy4) Copyright 2026 Cow Corporation. All rights reserved. cowcorporation.com You are welcome to view this video. However, it is not intended to have any value other than as a set of notes for our own reference. This video comes with no guarantee of suitability for any particular purpose; use at your own risk. Music used with permission: "Take You On" by James Mercy (featuring PhiloSofie). Music provided by http://spot.fi/NCS 0:00 Intro 0:24 Video 4:46 Outro