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Subject: Re: Winboard problem (maybe Delphi only )

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 06:16:23 08/23/03

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On August 23, 2003 at 09:06:46, Steve Maughan wrote:

>Hi Tony,
>
>I haven't heard of this problem and I doubt it's a Delphi specific problem.
>
>One possibility to try would be to use 'CreateThreadEx' instead of
>'CreateThread'.  I know from your website that you use CreateThread in XiniX but
>someone told me that this is not consols safe - I've no idea why and no more
>infor thatn this.
>
>The second thing to try would be to make sure that the read thread is
>*perfectly* synced with the thinking thread.  In Monarch I had some problems
>when I set a flag to change the thinking status only a few instructions before
>re-entering the main 'Wait-for-instruction' loop.  Amazingly this caused
>problems once in a while and I needed to set all flags the instruction before
>entering the loop.  I hope that makes sense.

It does, unfortunately, it all refers to reading, I have problems writing :)

Thanks anyway.


>
>Regards,
>
>Steve
>
>PS I'm rewriting Monarch into VC - I was concerned that Borland haven't improved
>the compiler since 1996.

I'll wait to see if they take long for a 64 bit compiler.

Tony




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