[fpc-devel]criticalsection

[Michael.VanCanneyt at Wisa.be]

On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Aleksey V. Vaneev wrote:

> Hello,
> 
>   Is it possible to implement some portable criticalsection support?
>   Under go32v2 it will be some global LockCount var. If entering
>   critical section, it will be incremented and "cli" issued. If
>   leaving, it will be decremented and if it's zero, "sti" issued.
> 
>   Under other systems it supported natively I suppose.
> 
>   So, there's only wrapper needed. I can provide it, but there's need
>   in support for other platforms.

Currently, we're adding support for Threads and CriticalSection to 
the development branch. But for go32 this doesn't make much sense 
since it doesn't know threads.

Michael.