[fpc-devel] Some details on BeginThread problem

[Robert Reimiller]

On Fri, 08 Sep 2006 20:34:48 -0000, Burkhard Carstens <fpc at bcsoft.de>  
wrote:

> Am Freitag, 8. September 2006 21:44 schrieb Robert Reimiller:
> [..]
>> I'm using objfpc mode. Changing addr(libthread) into @libthread
>> solved the problem.
>> I should have thought of that since I had the same problem with
>> getting the address of a callback procedure. It now all compiles, now
>> for the debugging......
>
>> From rtl/linux/tthread.inc line 189:
>
> { TThread }
> constructor TThread.Create(CreateSuspended: Boolean;
>                            const StackSize: SizeUInt =
> DefaultStackSize);
> begin
>   // lets just hope that the user doesn't create a thread
>   // via BeginThread and creates the first TThread Object in there!
>   InitThreads;
> ...
>
> I don't have mac os, no idea, if this applies there, too. Just thought,
> I should mention this ;-)

I think this only applies if you are using the tthread class, which I'm
not. At least I've never had any problems on Delphi with 15 threads  
running :)