Can somebody please confirm that there's no mechanism by which a method can switch to a private stack.

I've hacked together a very simple round-robin scheduler that I'm using to service serial lines- nothing critical, just simulating LEDs on traffic and summarising packet types. If a method could have a private stack, or there was some variant of QueueAsyncCall() which switched to a private stack, it would be possible to have a Yield procedure or to implement coroutine-type transfers.

Frankly I think I'm at the limit of what can be done without threads, which I've used plenty of times before but I thought I'd explore alternatives.

Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote

Can somebody please confirm that there's no mechanism by which a method can switch to a private stack.

Threads

-Michael

AFAIK there is nothing provided by FPC.

Frankly I think I'm at the limit of what can be done without threads, which I've used plenty of times before but I thought I'd explore alternatives.

There are several units helping with thread pools.

http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Manager_Worker_Threads_System http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Parallel_procedures

Mattias

Thanks both, just checking I've not missed anything obvious.