[fpc-pascal] Getting the state of a TRTLCriticalSection

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Benito van der Zander wrote:
>>
>> In the end I stuck in code to increment/decrement a counter, and 
>> looked for it to be explicitly 0 or 1.
> 
> Do you need to put a memory barrier around that, or does the critical 
> section take care of that?

I used the interlocked increment/decrement, which- as I understand it- 
should handle membar itself on architectures that can benefit from it.

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