Multi threading support was Re: [fpc-devel] Russian locale information not compatible withFPClocale variables

[Florian Klaempfl]

Michael Van Canneyt schrieb:
> 
> On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Florian Klaempfl wrote:
> 
>> Before we discuss endless about useless stuff, I'll make a proposal for a
>> first addition: support of the synchronized keyword. It does no more than
>> protecting a procedure automatically by a critical section so only one thread
>> can enter it. But I want to extend it. First, it can be applied also to
>> classes and object:
>>
>> tmyclass = class(...) synchronized
>>
>> This means that all classes synchronize against one critical section.
> 
> Can you explain this statement ?
> 
> All methods of this class are protected by the same critical section ?

Yes.

> So in fact only one method of such a class is executing at the same time ?

Yes. Acutally only one thread can enter the class.