[fpc-pascal] PThreads

[Marco van de Voort]

> I just found this <a
>  href="http://sources.redhat.com/pthreads-win32/index.html">link to
> Win32 PThreads</a> and wanted to know if FPC uses pthreads in the
> Windows implementation. 

No. FPC is in general totally independant of any Unix lib on Windows. The
parts that _can_ be used are typically mingw implementations of libs with
little other dependancies.

> It would probably ease use.

Actually it wouldn't be pretty pointless. FPC threading is modelled after
Delphi, which is closer to Windows than to pthreads.

> The main inconvenience to this library is that
> it wants to use a dll and the nice thing about FPC is "no dependencies".
> So maybe an interface to the C library would have to be written

What would be the need for this? Deep integration with cygwin?