[Lazarus] Threads in Lazarus code base

[Marco van de Voort]

On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 06:33:19PM -0500, Andrew Brunner wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Marco van de Voort <marcov at stack.nl> wrote:
> > Well, one pain less. Delphi deprecated suspending/resuming of threads.
> 
> That makes for interesting news.  What about suspending / resuming
> Manager Systems that use threads for service applications...

Just let them block on an tevent. On anything but windows (which has
explicit support for suspending) that happens anyway. That is also one of
the remedies they recommend btw.

> Sometimes you have to ask what where they thinking?

They are preparing for multiplatform, and probably saw the mess the
complications in the FPC rtl:-)