[Lazarus] thread safe

[Malcom Haak]

Correct me if I'm wrong, But can't you technically make any code
'thread-safe'  by using Critical Sections before doing work.
In some code I have seen before a critical section was entered before
calling TList.Add
Now provided that you don't need a specific order, does this not then make
it thread safe?

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 1:32 AM, Michael Schnell <mschnell at lumino.de> wrote:

> On 06/14/2011 04:57 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
>
>>
>> How would you expect a thread-safe version to work? A TList doesn't
>> serialize requests, this would have to be added separately.
>>
>>  It does not need to, as  "separate-instance-thread safe" means that each
> thread handles only it's own instance.
>
> "Add" only needs to use stack variables and instance variables. Both are
> dedicated to the thread and thus don't need a protection (OK it if needs to
> allocate memory the heap allocation procedure does need protection
> mechanism, but this is provided by the infrastructure anyway. )
>
> -Michael
>
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