[fpc-pascal] Support for "class threadvar" sections inside class and record types

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Sat Jun 23 16:31:35 CEST 2018


In our previous episode, Ryan Joseph said:
> > 
> > A threadvar section is started using "class threadvar" and the "class" specifier is required. They are accessed like ordinary class variables with the difference that they'll hold different values per thread - the same as global threadvars after all.
> > 
> > This feature is Delphi compatible (and was added, because I noticed that Delphi supported it and FPC did not ??
> 
> That?s an interesting idea I wonder how it could be used. Does it do
> anything to help with shared data between threads or is just a way to get
> quick access to thread safe memory?

More probably they needed it for the TMonitor implementation, which is used
as a kind of spinlock in front of every OS synchronization primitive. 



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