[fpc-pascal] TThread.Suspend

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Marco van de Voort wrote:
> In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said:
>>> 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.
> 
> Classes was originally FCL too. That kind of thinking of RTL vs FCL based on
> functional division is outdated. Now it is mostly just compiler
> bootstrapping. (even more so since the recent creation of rtl-* packages)

Although it's still significant when it comes to documentation, 
particularly when starting at e.g. http://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.net/docs/

I'm trying to dig through things... if I recall correctly it's not 
possible to do something like  {$if defined(TThread.Resume) }  but I 
must admit that I'm having a hard time finding  defined()  at all, I 
think 
http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/prog/progsu29.html#x35-340001.1.29 
needs a link to 
http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/prog/progsu125.html#x137-1380002.4.1 
or at least needs the name if the section it's pointing at tightened up.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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