On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 22:50:29 +0200, Jonas Maebe
<jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be> wrote:
On 15 Oct 2010, at 22:31, Vinzent Höfler wrote:
- Suspend/Resume should be gone (you can't guarantee it to work,
so there's no point in doing it at all)
FWIW, they're deprecated since Delphi 2009, so they will disappear over
time. To resume a tthread created with fcreatesuspended=true, they
introduced a new "Start" method (which does basically the same as
Resume, but it's not deprecated).
So they already stole my idea! ;) Seriously that's good to hear,
because it solves some of the possible compatibility issues. If
users complain they can be told: "Delphi is doing it, too", then. ;)
- FreeOnTerminate should be gone, (meaning no way to actively call
TThread.Destroy from another thread, a thread gets destroyed
automatically when it leaves its execute method)
(IIRC FreeOnTerminate was even set to False by the default
constructor, so you had the choice of either using the default
or introducing a race condition by setting it after the
"inherited Create" - which starts the execute.)
This problem has been solved with
http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=16884
Yes. But isn't that precisely the (forced) thread suspension on
creation, Andrew is complaining about?
Vinzent.
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