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4 >Multi-threaded Programming</TITLE | |
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7 CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.76b+ |
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9 REL="HOME" | |
10 TITLE="SDL Library Documentation" | |
11 HREF="index.html"><LINK | |
12 REL="UP" | |
13 TITLE="SDL Reference" | |
14 HREF="reference.html"><LINK | |
15 REL="PREVIOUS" | |
16 TITLE="SDL_CDtrack" | |
17 HREF="sdlcdtrack.html"><LINK | |
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19 TITLE="SDL_CreateThread" | |
20 HREF="sdlcreatethread.html"><META | |
21 NAME="KEYWORD" | |
22 CONTENT="threads"><META | |
23 NAME="KEYWORD" | |
24 CONTENT="function"></HEAD | |
25 ><BODY | |
26 CLASS="CHAPTER" | |
27 BGCOLOR="#FFF8DC" | |
28 TEXT="#000000" | |
29 LINK="#0000ee" | |
30 VLINK="#551a8b" | |
31 ALINK="#ff0000" | |
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33 CLASS="NAVHEADER" | |
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40 ><TR | |
41 ><TH | |
42 COLSPAN="3" | |
43 ALIGN="center" | |
44 >SDL Library Documentation</TH | |
45 ></TR | |
46 ><TR | |
47 ><TD | |
48 WIDTH="10%" | |
49 ALIGN="left" | |
50 VALIGN="bottom" | |
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52 HREF="sdlcdtrack.html" | |
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57 WIDTH="80%" | |
58 ALIGN="center" | |
59 VALIGN="bottom" | |
60 ></TD | |
61 ><TD | |
62 WIDTH="10%" | |
63 ALIGN="right" | |
64 VALIGN="bottom" | |
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74 WIDTH="100%"></DIV | |
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76 CLASS="CHAPTER" | |
77 ><H1 | |
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80 ></A |
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81 >Chapter 12. Multi-threaded Programming</H1 |
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83 CLASS="TOC" | |
84 ><DL | |
85 ><DT | |
86 ><B | |
87 >Table of Contents</B | |
88 ></DT | |
89 ><DT | |
90 ><A | |
91 HREF="sdlcreatethread.html" | |
92 >SDL_CreateThread</A | |
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93 > -- Creates a new thread of execution that shares its parent's properties.</DT |
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96 HREF="sdlthreadid.html" | |
97 >SDL_ThreadID</A | |
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98 > -- Get the 32-bit thread identifier for the current thread.</DT |
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101 HREF="sdlgetthreadid.html" | |
102 >SDL_GetThreadID</A | |
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103 > -- Get the SDL thread ID of a SDL_Thread</DT |
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106 HREF="sdlwaitthread.html" | |
107 >SDL_WaitThread</A | |
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108 > -- Wait for a thread to finish.</DT |
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111 HREF="sdlkillthread.html" | |
112 >SDL_KillThread</A | |
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113 > -- Gracelessly terminates the thread.</DT |
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116 HREF="sdlcreatemutex.html" | |
117 >SDL_CreateMutex</A | |
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118 > -- Create a mutex</DT |
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121 HREF="sdldestroymutex.html" | |
122 >SDL_DestroyMutex</A | |
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123 > -- Destroy a mutex</DT |
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126 HREF="sdlmutexp.html" | |
127 >SDL_mutexP</A | |
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128 > -- Lock a mutex</DT |
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131 HREF="sdlmutexv.html" | |
132 >SDL_mutexV</A | |
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133 > -- Unlock a mutex</DT |
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136 HREF="sdlcreatesemaphore.html" | |
137 >SDL_CreateSemaphore</A | |
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138 > -- Creates a new semaphore and assigns an initial value to it.</DT |
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141 HREF="sdldestroysemaphore.html" | |
142 >SDL_DestroySemaphore</A | |
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143 > -- Destroys a semaphore that was created by <A |
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145 >SDL_CreateSemaphore</A | |
146 >.</DT | |
147 ><DT | |
148 ><A | |
149 HREF="sdlsemwait.html" | |
150 >SDL_SemWait</A | |
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151 > -- Lock a semaphore and suspend the thread if the semaphore value is zero.</DT |
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154 HREF="sdlsemtrywait.html" | |
155 >SDL_SemTryWait</A | |
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156 > -- Attempt to lock a semaphore but don't suspend the thread.</DT |
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159 HREF="sdlsemwaittimeout.html" | |
160 >SDL_SemWaitTimeout</A | |
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161 > -- Lock a semaphore, but only wait up to a specified maximum time.</DT |
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164 HREF="sdlsempost.html" | |
165 >SDL_SemPost</A | |
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166 > -- Unlock a semaphore.</DT |
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169 HREF="sdlsemvalue.html" | |
170 >SDL_SemValue</A | |
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171 > -- Return the current value of a semaphore.</DT |
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174 HREF="sdlcreatecond.html" | |
175 >SDL_CreateCond</A | |
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176 > -- Create a condition variable</DT |
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179 HREF="sdldestroycond.html" | |
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181 > -- Destroy a condition variable</DT |
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184 HREF="sdlcondsignal.html" | |
185 >SDL_CondSignal</A | |
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186 > -- Restart a thread wait on a condition variable</DT |
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189 HREF="sdlcondbroadcast.html" | |
190 >SDL_CondBroadcast</A | |
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191 > -- Restart all threads waiting on a condition variable</DT |
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194 HREF="sdlcondwait.html" | |
195 >SDL_CondWait</A | |
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196 > -- Wait on a condition variable</DT |
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199 HREF="sdlcondwaittimeout.html" | |
200 >SDL_CondWaitTimeout</A | |
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201 > -- Wait on a condition variable, with timeout</DT |
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203 ></DIV | |
204 ><P | |
205 >SDL provides functions for creating threads, mutexes, semphores and condition variables.</P | |
206 ><P | |
207 >In general, you must be very aware of concurrency and data integrity issues | |
208 when writing multi-threaded programs. Some good guidelines include: | |
209 <P | |
210 ></P | |
211 ><UL | |
212 ><LI | |
213 ><P | |
214 >Don't call SDL video/event functions from separate threads</P | |
215 ></LI | |
216 ><LI | |
217 ><P | |
218 >Don't use any library functions in separate threads</P | |
219 ></LI | |
220 ><LI | |
221 ><P | |
222 >Don't perform any memory management in separate threads</P | |
223 ></LI | |
224 ><LI | |
225 ><P | |
226 >Lock global variables which may be accessed by multiple threads</P | |
227 ></LI | |
228 ><LI | |
229 ><P | |
230 >Never terminate threads, always set a flag and wait for them to quit</P | |
231 ></LI | |
232 ><LI | |
233 ><P | |
234 >Think very carefully about all possible ways your code may interact</P | |
235 ></LI | |
236 ></UL | |
237 ></P | |
238 ><DIV | |
239 CLASS="NOTE" | |
240 ><BLOCKQUOTE | |
241 CLASS="NOTE" | |
242 ><P | |
243 ><B | |
244 >Note: </B | |
1621 | 245 >SDL's threading is not implemented on MacOS, due to that lack of preemptive thread support (Mac OS X dos nt suffer from this problem)</P |
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247 ></DIV | |
248 ></DIV | |
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250 CLASS="NAVFOOTER" | |
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260 ><TD | |
261 WIDTH="33%" | |
262 ALIGN="left" | |
263 VALIGN="top" | |
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271 ALIGN="center" | |
272 VALIGN="top" | |
273 ><A | |
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281 VALIGN="top" | |
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291 ALIGN="left" | |
292 VALIGN="top" | |
293 >SDL_CDtrack</TD | |
294 ><TD | |
295 WIDTH="34%" | |
296 ALIGN="center" | |
297 VALIGN="top" | |
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305 ALIGN="right" | |
306 VALIGN="top" | |
307 >SDL_CreateThread</TD | |
308 ></TR | |
309 ></TABLE | |
310 ></DIV | |
311 ></BODY | |
312 ></HTML | |
313 > |