[fpc-pascal] TThread.Suspend

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Marco van de Voort wrote:
> In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said:
>> First question: is Start an accurate replacement for Resume,
> 
> Yes.
> 
>> or can it 
>> only be used to start a thread created in the suspended state?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> Both yes, because anything but that was never fully supported with Resume in
> the first place.
> 
>> Second question: now that Suspend is deprecated, what should a thread do 
>> if it wants to stop processing pending a subsequent resume?
> 
> Add a Tevent, and block on it. IOW nothing built-in.

OK, noted. But as a stylistic point it seems to me that this very basic 
functionality has been ripped out of the RTL (Classes.TThread) and moved 
into the FCL (Syncobjs.TEvent) leaving no adequate substitute.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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