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Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 22:08:27 +0100
From: Patrice Mandin
Subject: [SDL][PATCH] 2 patches for sdl
Here are 2 patches for SDL:
- One is to put the dummy video drivers at the end of the
video drivers list. It gave me problems, when
SDL_VIDEODRIVER is not set, and the dummy driver is used
instead of the platform's driver, just because it is
always available. So the dummy driver must always be at
the end of the list. I suppose picogui and dc video
drivers also don't work.
| author | Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org> |
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| date | Tue, 15 Apr 2003 15:46:56 +0000 |
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| 2 ><HEAD | |
| 3 ><TITLE | |
| 4 >Multi-threaded Programming</TITLE | |
| 5 ><META | |
| 6 NAME="GENERATOR" | |
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7 CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.64 |
| 0 | 8 "><LINK |
| 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 | |
| 18 REL="NEXT" | |
| 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" | |
| 32 ><DIV | |
| 33 CLASS="NAVHEADER" | |
| 34 ><TABLE | |
| 35 WIDTH="100%" | |
| 36 BORDER="0" | |
| 37 CELLPADDING="0" | |
| 38 CELLSPACING="0" | |
| 39 ><TR | |
| 40 ><TH | |
| 41 COLSPAN="3" | |
| 42 ALIGN="center" | |
| 43 >SDL Library Documentation</TH | |
| 44 ></TR | |
| 45 ><TR | |
| 46 ><TD | |
| 47 WIDTH="10%" | |
| 48 ALIGN="left" | |
| 49 VALIGN="bottom" | |
| 50 ><A | |
| 51 HREF="sdlcdtrack.html" | |
| 52 >Prev</A | |
| 53 ></TD | |
| 54 ><TD | |
| 55 WIDTH="80%" | |
| 56 ALIGN="center" | |
| 57 VALIGN="bottom" | |
| 58 ></TD | |
| 59 ><TD | |
| 60 WIDTH="10%" | |
| 61 ALIGN="right" | |
| 62 VALIGN="bottom" | |
| 63 ><A | |
| 64 HREF="sdlcreatethread.html" | |
| 65 >Next</A | |
| 66 ></TD | |
| 67 ></TR | |
| 68 ></TABLE | |
| 69 ><HR | |
| 70 ALIGN="LEFT" | |
| 71 WIDTH="100%"></DIV | |
| 72 ><DIV | |
| 73 CLASS="CHAPTER" | |
| 74 ><H1 | |
| 75 ><A | |
| 76 NAME="THREAD" | |
| 77 >Chapter 12. Multi-threaded Programming</A | |
| 78 ></H1 | |
| 79 ><DIV | |
| 80 CLASS="TOC" | |
| 81 ><DL | |
| 82 ><DT | |
| 83 ><B | |
| 84 >Table of Contents</B | |
| 85 ></DT | |
| 86 ><DT | |
| 87 ><A | |
| 88 HREF="sdlcreatethread.html" | |
| 89 >SDL_CreateThread</A | |
| 90 > — Creates a new thread of execution that shares its parent's properties.</DT | |
| 91 ><DT | |
| 92 ><A | |
| 93 HREF="sdlthreadid.html" | |
| 94 >SDL_ThreadID</A | |
| 95 > — Get the 32-bit thread identifier for the current thread.</DT | |
| 96 ><DT | |
| 97 ><A | |
| 98 HREF="sdlgetthreadid.html" | |
| 99 >SDL_GetThreadID</A | |
| 100 > — Get the SDL thread ID of a SDL_Thread</DT | |
| 101 ><DT | |
| 102 ><A | |
| 103 HREF="sdlwaitthread.html" | |
| 104 >SDL_WaitThread</A | |
| 105 > — Wait for a thread to finish.</DT | |
| 106 ><DT | |
| 107 ><A | |
| 108 HREF="sdlkillthread.html" | |
| 109 >SDL_KillThread</A | |
| 110 > — Gracelessly terminates the thread.</DT | |
| 111 ><DT | |
| 112 ><A | |
| 113 HREF="sdlcreatemutex.html" | |
| 114 >SDL_CreateMutex</A | |
| 115 > — Create a mutex</DT | |
| 116 ><DT | |
| 117 ><A | |
| 118 HREF="sdldestroymutex.html" | |
| 119 >SDL_DestroyMutex</A | |
| 120 > — Destroy a mutex</DT | |
| 121 ><DT | |
| 122 ><A | |
| 123 HREF="sdlmutexp.html" | |
| 124 >SDL_mutexP</A | |
| 125 > — Lock a mutex</DT | |
| 126 ><DT | |
| 127 ><A | |
| 128 HREF="sdlmutexv.html" | |
| 129 >SDL_mutexV</A | |
| 130 > — Unlock a mutex</DT | |
| 131 ><DT | |
| 132 ><A | |
| 133 HREF="sdlcreatesemaphore.html" | |
| 134 >SDL_CreateSemaphore</A | |
| 135 > — Creates a new semaphore and assigns an initial value to it.</DT | |
| 136 ><DT | |
| 137 ><A | |
| 138 HREF="sdldestroysemaphore.html" | |
| 139 >SDL_DestroySemaphore</A | |
| 140 > — Destroys a semaphore that was created by <A | |
| 141 HREF="sdlcreatesemaphore.html" | |
| 142 >SDL_CreateSemaphore</A | |
| 143 >.</DT | |
| 144 ><DT | |
| 145 ><A | |
| 146 HREF="sdlsemwait.html" | |
| 147 >SDL_SemWait</A | |
| 148 > — Lock a semaphore and suspend the thread if the semaphore value is zero.</DT | |
| 149 ><DT | |
| 150 ><A | |
| 151 HREF="sdlsemtrywait.html" | |
| 152 >SDL_SemTryWait</A | |
| 153 > — Attempt to lock a semaphore but don't suspend the thread.</DT | |
| 154 ><DT | |
| 155 ><A | |
| 156 HREF="sdlsemwaittimeout.html" | |
| 157 >SDL_SemWaitTimeout</A | |
| 158 > — Lock a semaphore, but only wait up to a specified maximum time.</DT | |
| 159 ><DT | |
| 160 ><A | |
| 161 HREF="sdlsempost.html" | |
| 162 >SDL_SemPost</A | |
| 163 > — Unlock a semaphore.</DT | |
| 164 ><DT | |
| 165 ><A | |
| 166 HREF="sdlsemvalue.html" | |
| 167 >SDL_SemValue</A | |
| 168 > — Return the current value of a semaphore.</DT | |
| 169 ><DT | |
| 170 ><A | |
| 171 HREF="sdlcreatecond.html" | |
| 172 >SDL_CreateCond</A | |
| 173 > — Create a condition variable</DT | |
| 174 ><DT | |
| 175 ><A | |
| 176 HREF="sdldestroycond.html" | |
| 177 >SDL_DestroyCond</A | |
| 178 > — Destroy a condition variable</DT | |
| 179 ><DT | |
| 180 ><A | |
| 181 HREF="sdlcondsignal.html" | |
| 182 >SDL_CondSignal</A | |
| 183 > — Restart a thread wait on a condition variable</DT | |
| 184 ><DT | |
| 185 ><A | |
| 186 HREF="sdlcondbroadcast.html" | |
| 187 >SDL_CondBroadcast</A | |
| 188 > — Restart all threads waiting on a condition variable</DT | |
| 189 ><DT | |
| 190 ><A | |
| 191 HREF="sdlcondwait.html" | |
| 192 >SDL_CondWait</A | |
| 193 > — Wait on a condition variable</DT | |
| 194 ><DT | |
| 195 ><A | |
| 196 HREF="sdlcondwaittimeout.html" | |
| 197 >SDL_CondWaitTimeout</A | |
| 198 > — Wait on a condition variable, with timeout</DT | |
| 199 ></DL | |
| 200 ></DIV | |
| 201 ><P | |
| 202 >SDL provides functions for creating threads, mutexes, semphores and condition variables.</P | |
| 203 ><P | |
| 204 >In general, you must be very aware of concurrency and data integrity issues | |
| 205 when writing multi-threaded programs. Some good guidelines include: | |
| 206 <P | |
| 207 ></P | |
| 208 ><UL | |
| 209 ><LI | |
| 210 ><P | |
| 211 >Don't call SDL video/event functions from separate threads</P | |
| 212 ></LI | |
| 213 ><LI | |
| 214 ><P | |
| 215 >Don't use any library functions in separate threads</P | |
| 216 ></LI | |
| 217 ><LI | |
| 218 ><P | |
| 219 >Don't perform any memory management in separate threads</P | |
| 220 ></LI | |
| 221 ><LI | |
| 222 ><P | |
| 223 >Lock global variables which may be accessed by multiple threads</P | |
| 224 ></LI | |
| 225 ><LI | |
| 226 ><P | |
| 227 >Never terminate threads, always set a flag and wait for them to quit</P | |
| 228 ></LI | |
| 229 ><LI | |
| 230 ><P | |
| 231 >Think very carefully about all possible ways your code may interact</P | |
| 232 ></LI | |
| 233 ></UL | |
| 234 ></P | |
| 235 ><DIV | |
| 236 CLASS="NOTE" | |
| 237 ><BLOCKQUOTE | |
| 238 CLASS="NOTE" | |
| 239 ><P | |
| 240 ><B | |
| 241 >Note: </B | |
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242 >SDL's threading is not implemented on MacOS, due to that lack of preemptive thread support (MacOS X dos nt suffer from this problem)</P |
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| 256 ><TD | |
| 257 WIDTH="33%" | |
| 258 ALIGN="left" | |
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| 268 ><A | |
| 269 HREF="index.html" | |
| 270 >Home</A | |
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