On 20 Apr 2009, at 11:41, Marco van de Voort wrote:
In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said:
No, the thread manager is only for internal use by the RTL, and
may lack
implementations for functions not required by the RTL for a
particular
platform. See http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=11206
That was definitely not the original intention of the thread manager.
The idea was to have low-level thread related functions available
without
classes, including semaphores.
I cannot remember that either. I can remember something about
beginthread/endthread being kept because of backwards compat, but not
because of a great all-procedural api.
beginthread/endthread are part of a general procedural api for thread
programming (they also exist in Kylix, afaik). It just was never
really fleshed out. I was only talking about recommending the use of
the thread manager directly (even as a workaround).
Jonas
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