[fpc-pascal] Function reference doesn't capture in thread

[Sven Barth]

Hairy Pixels <genericptr at gmail.com> schrieb am Sa., 17. Sep. 2022, 16:38:

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>
> > On Sep 17, 2022, at 7:40 PM, Sven Barth <pascaldragon at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > It seems you haven't read the part about capturing variables in my
> announcement mail, cause you have two problems:
> > First the specific problem your code has: i is a global variables and
> global variables are *never* captured, because they don't need to.
> > But even if you'd change your code so that the threads are initialized
> inside a procedure instead of the main block this would still not work,
> because variables are captured *by reference* which means that i would be
> shared between all newly created threads plus the main thread and depending
> on how the threads are scheduled the main thread will reach the call to
> WaitFor where i will again start from 0.
>
> I didn’t know they were captured by reference! Does this mean they’re
> essentially pointers pointing the same variable?


Then you didn't read my announcement mail deeply enough, cause it's
mentioned there!
And they are not pointers, but the variable is moved to an object instance
which implements the interface of the function reference.


Even so I’m trying now to modifying the example by copying to a local
> variable but I still see this same behavior suggesting there isn’t actually
> a copy. Why is this?
>

When your callback is executed i might already have been changed!

Regards,
Sven
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