[fpc-devel] RIP NoGlobals

Florian Klaempfl florian at freepascal.org
Wed Sep 29 08:55:24 CEST 2010


Am 29.09.2010 01:17, schrieb Hans-Peter Diettrich:
> A last note on the NoGlobals branch, and parallel processing in the
> compiler:
> 
> I couldn't find any way to move global variables from globals.pas into
> e.g. fmodule (tmodule, current_module), without breaking ppudump
> dependencies. As long as nobody can provide a solution for this problem,
> I see no chance for any parallel processing in the compiler.

I think it was already proposed to use threadvars in this case if needed?

> 
> Now I'll resume my original work on multiple front-ends, this time using
> a git repository 

Well, I wonder what the advantage of this will be, besides that there
will be not feedback possible on the changes, so the chances to get
these changes into trunk are also very little.



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