[Lazarus] Rescan FPC sources crashes Lazarus

[patspiper]

On 03/26/2011 12:55 PM, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 12:43:58 +0200
> patspiper<patspiper at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> [...]
>>>>> AFAIK when writing your own thread manager you must set it.
>>>> Still no excuse for a global variable. Simply registering that thread
>>>> manager with some RTL class could automatically return True if the
>>>> function IsRTLMultiThreaded(): boolean is called. Global variables are
>>>> renowned for being "unsafe" and so 80's style of developing...
>>>> improved alternative do exist now.
>>> lol.
>>> Changing a time critical variable to a function just to prevent
>>> vandalism by newbies. For a moment I really thought you were serious. :)
>> I have to partially agree with Graeme on this point, especially that
>> this package was ported from Delphi. The symptoms were on the surface
>> unrelated to the cause. I had to debug for quite a while until I
>> stumbled upon the culprit IsMultiThread assignment buried deep within
>> 10-15 units. A compile time 'read only' error would have saved me a lot
>> of grief.
> The joke was to use a function.
I was inprecise when I mentioned 'this point'. I was alluding to the 
very early posts in this thread, and in particular the read only issue. 
My bad.
> A read only property would be nice and a separate procedure to set it.
> But I don't know if this is compatible.
Too bad. It could save others a lot of frustration.

Stephano