[fpc-pascal] Mozilla XPCOM

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Fri, 4 Jun 2010, José Mejuto wrote:

> Hello FPC-Pascal,
>
> Friday, June 4, 2010, 10:37:42 AM, you wrote:
>
>>> And this is the backtrace. Any idea ?
> JM> Maybe you are executing Pascal code in threads that have not been
> JM> started via the FPC rtl? (i.e., not via beginthread nor via
> JM> tthread.create) That is not supported on Unix platforms.
>
> Not, well, not at least on intention but maybe is the XPCOM which is
> calling pascal code from a different thread :-? XPCOM tells me across
> the documentation to call most of its functions from the main thread,
> but maybe the callback is happening from a different one :-?
>
> If that's the case is any kind of workaround ? Callbacks are only 4 or
> 5 functions +/- and maybe I can create another thread (in pascal) and
> inquiry this thread to process the data and put result in some kind of
> shared memory block ?

I've been studying the thread problem for years and never found a workable
solution on Unix.

Michael.