[Lazarus] Rescan FPC sources crashes Lazarus

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Florian Klaempfl schrieb:

>> A class is not required, FPC supports unit-level properties as well :-)
>>
> 
> True, but the issue with them is: you cannot use them to create a fool 
> proof read-only property without using a function because there is no 
> unit level encapsulation aka private/protected on unit level: the 
> variable read by the property cannot be in the implementation part of 
> the unit because it wouldn't be accessible at declaration time of the 
> property.

ACK

> Making IsMultiThreaded a function is a no-no: it is used in really speed 
> critical code paths and using an inline function neither because it's 
> used mostly in assembler code

Simple solution: the variable continues to exist, under a different 
name. The property only implements Delphi compatibility :-)

DoDi