[fpc-pascal] Feature announcement: Extension of TThread's interface

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Thu Dec 27 21:50:02 CET 2012


In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said:
> > The methods NameThreadForDebugging need to be 
> > implemented for those platforms that support it.
> 
> Is this platform API functionality eg: Win32 or Linux kernel (from your
> comment, I assume so), or is it debugger functionality (eg: DWARF info)
> that needs to be extended.

Afaik on Windows it is a possibility for a program to name its threads via a
winapi call, for which debuggers can register themselves.

Hard to imitate without a OS supported debugger api.



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