[Lazarus] Rescan FPC sources crashes Lazarus

[Sven Barth]

On 25.03.2011 22:19, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On 25 March 2011 23:08, Mattias Gaertner<nc-gaertnma at net****>  wrote:
>>
>> The scan uses multi threading, which was broken by the installed
>> package.
>
> I was reading the thread and replying before I read the whole thread.
> Indeed that installed package did do something it was not supposed to
> do.
>
> In all fairness, how are all developers supposed to know that?  Isn't
> there a better way that FPC could hide such functionality (not
> allowing a developer to set a RTL controlled variable they are not
> supposed do). That should really be filed as a bug against FPC. They
> [fpc] should rather use some singleton class with a read-only
> property, or simply a function (function IsRTLMultiThreaded: boolean;)
> or something, not just a global read-write variable - that's just
> sloppy!

You know the answer, Graeme...

But I agree that this could be done better. Keep the IsMultiThread 
variable for Delphi compatibility, but use a private variable for the 
real stuff and set the Delphi compatible one together with the real one 
internally.

Regards,
Sven