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Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 15:17:27 +0300 (EEST) From: Hannu Savolainen Subject: Re: SDL uses obsolete OSS features I did some work on getting OSS to work better with SDL. There have been some problems with select which should be fixed now. I'm having some problems in understanding what is the purpose of the DSP_WaitAudio() routine. I added a return to the very beginning of this routine and commendted out the define for USE_BLOCKING_WRITES. At least lbreakout2 seems to work as well as earlier. The latencies are the same. An ordinary blocking write does exactly the same thing than DSP_WaitAudio does. So I would recommend using the USE_BLOCKING_WRITES approach and removing everything from the DSP_WaitAudio routine. Also enabling USE_BLOCKING_WRITES makes it possible to simplify DSP_PlayAudio() because you don't need to handle the partial writes (the do-while loop). Attached is a patch against SDL-1.2.7. After these changes SDL will use OSS as it's designed to be used (make it as simple as possible). This code should work with all OSS implementations because it uses only the very fundamental features that have been there since the jurassic times.
author Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org>
date Fri, 12 Nov 2004 21:39:04 +0000
parents 02759105b989
children 173c063d4f55
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/*
    SDL - Simple DirectMedia Layer
    Copyright (C) 1997-2004 Sam Lantinga

    This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
    modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
    License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
    version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

    This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
    Library General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
    License along with this library; if not, write to the Free
    Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

    Sam Lantinga
    slouken@libsdl.org
*/

#ifdef SAVE_RCSID
static char rcsid =
 "@(#) $Id$";
#endif

#ifndef _SDL_thread_h
#define _SDL_thread_h

/* Header for the SDL thread management routines 

	These are independent of the other SDL routines.
*/

#include "SDL_main.h"
#include "SDL_types.h"

/* Thread synchronization primitives */
#include "SDL_mutex.h"

#include "begin_code.h"
/* Set up for C function definitions, even when using C++ */
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif

/* The SDL thread structure, defined in SDL_thread.c */
struct SDL_Thread;
typedef struct SDL_Thread SDL_Thread;

/* Create a thread */
extern DECLSPEC SDL_Thread * SDLCALL SDL_CreateThread(int (SDLCALL *fn)(void *), void *data);

/* Get the 32-bit thread identifier for the current thread */
extern DECLSPEC Uint32 SDLCALL SDL_ThreadID(void);

/* Get the 32-bit thread identifier for the specified thread,
   equivalent to SDL_ThreadID() if the specified thread is NULL.
 */
extern DECLSPEC Uint32 SDLCALL SDL_GetThreadID(SDL_Thread *thread);

/* Wait for a thread to finish.
   The return code for the thread function is placed in the area
   pointed to by 'status', if 'status' is not NULL.
 */
extern DECLSPEC void SDLCALL SDL_WaitThread(SDL_Thread *thread, int *status);

/* Forcefully kill a thread without worrying about its state */
extern DECLSPEC void SDLCALL SDL_KillThread(SDL_Thread *thread);


/* Ends C function definitions when using C++ */
#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif
#include "close_code.h"

#endif /* _SDL_thread_h */