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Subject: Re: Multithreading question

Author: Andreas Herrmann

Date: 00:21:34 09/09/03

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On September 09, 2003 at 02:14:08, Tony Werten wrote:

Hi Tony,

i have just read inside a Delphi internals book last week a 50 side long capitel
about Thread programming. It says that all local vars are save, but pay
attention for global vars. See the help to the win api function
EnterCriticalSection or the VCL object TCriticalSection as a good starting point
to this theme.

Andreas



>Hi,
>
>maybe a silly question, but one get quite desperate during debugging. Suppose I
>have the followin code:
>
>procedure whatever(param:integer)
>begin
>   do_something_heavy_with_param;
>end;
>
>Say, the heavy stuff takes about 10 seconds.
>
>If during these secs another thread is calling this function, what happens ?
>
>Does every thread gets a "local copy" of the function ?
>
>On a single processor, there is a context switch, stuff is pushed on a stack,
>and everything is safe.
>
>What about a dual ? I get the feeling that param is actually changed by the
>second call.
>
>Tony



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