Four approaches

1. Copy all argumnets to the thread's stack: not supported!

   pthread initial functions only take 1 argument.

2. Pass a pointer to local storage containing the arguments:

   Ok if we are certain this storage doesn't go out of scope until the thread is finished with it!

3. Pass a pointer to static or global storage containing the arguments:

   Works only if only one thread at a time is using the storage.

4. Pass a pointer to dynamically allocated storage containing the arguments.

   This works provided the storage can be released (free()) when (and only when) the thread is finished with it.