[Lazarus] Is porting Delphi program using AsyncPro to fpc/laz possible?

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Michael Schnell wrote:

>  - Once the appropriate data is collected you *create* a "transfer 
> object" (an instance of a transfer class that allocates and includes 
> buffer for the data (not just a pointer if the buffer could be reused by 
> the thread !

That of course is a significant issue. I've written "bare metal" stuff 
which moved data around like that with lots of consistency checking 
which meant it was robust. OTOH "real" OSes tend to move pointers around 
with minimal hardware protection against overrun etc. when a pointer 
somehow gets moved outside its (ring) buffer.

I wonder whether using something reference counted would be a useful 
compromise here.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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