[fpc-pascal] writeln: FPC runtime race conditions in external C threads

[Jonas Maebe]

Alexander Grau wrote on Mon, 12 Jul 2010:

> Am 12.07.2010 um 18:17 schrieb Jonas Maebe:
>
>> On 12 Jul 2010, at 13:24, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>>
>>> Basically, any heap memory access and standard pascal I/O are forbidden in
>>> threads started outside FPC, because the necessary thread  
>>> structures are not
>>> initialized correctly.
>>
>> I think that I've finally found a way to resolve this properly in r15557.
>
> This doesn't seem to work fully yet-  let me try to create a simple  
> test for reproducing my crash ;-) ...

I forgot to mention: before this works, you have to create at least  
one thread using the FPC RTL in order to initialise the threading  
subsystem. It can be terminated/freed immediately, see the test  
program that was committed together with the fix for an example.


Jonas

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