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Some cleanups on the new XInput code. One or two things got moved around, but largely this is hooked up correctly in the Unix configure system now: it can be dynamically loaded and fallback gracefully if not available, or libXi can be directly linked to libSDL. XInput support can be --disable'd from the configure script, too (defaults to enabled). Please note that while the framework is in place to gracefully fallback, the current state of the source requires XInput. We'll need to adjust a few things still to correct this.
author Ryan C. Gordon <icculus@icculus.org>
date Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:20:57 +0000
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>SDL_CreateSemaphore</H1
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>SDL_CreateSemaphore&nbsp;--&nbsp;Creates a new semaphore and assigns an initial value to it.</DIV
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>#include "SDL.h"
#include "SDL_thread.h"</PRE
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>SDL_sem *<B
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>SDL_CreateSemaphore</B
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>(Uint32 initial_value);</CODE
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Each locking operation on the semaphore by
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will atomically decrement the semaphore value. The locking operation will be blocked
if the semaphore value is not positive (greater than zero). Each unlock operation by
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>SDL_sem *my_sem;

my_sem = SDL_CreateSemaphore(INITIAL_SEM_VALUE);

if (my_sem == NULL) {
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