[fpc-pascal] TThread.FreeOnTerminate

[Sven Barth]

Am Fr., 14. Dez. 2018, 10:31 hat Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org>
geschrieben:

>
>
> On Fri, 14 Dec 2018, el es wrote:
>
> > On 13/12/2018 22:23, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, 13 Dec 2018, Martin Frb wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> ---- Besides, the documentation does not say that FreeOnTerminate
> >>> is limited to be used in the thread construction. Especially since
> >>> its effect is not due until "terminate"
> >>
> >> For me this is a given.
> >>
> >> Almost by definition, changing anything in a thread after the
> >> constructor has returned, is dangerous. You should set up everything
> >> in the constructor.
> >
> >
> > Then this TThread.FreeOnTerminate property should not really be public,
> > if it's only to be used in 'private' context of the constructor?
>
> I think FreeOnTerminate should not even exist. IMO it should simply be
> 'True'.
>

I disagree, because then you could never do a WaitFor(). Or provide the
thread with new data through a method (that fills a queue that the thread
processes) without risking an access violation.

Regards,
Sven

>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.freepascal.org/pipermail/fpc-pascal/attachments/20181214/1684ac9b/attachment.html>