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The new, cleaner, version of the atomic operations. The dummy code is what you should start working with to port atomic ops.
The linux code appears to be complete and *should* be the base of all Unix and GCC based versions. The macosx and win32 versions
are currently just copies of the dummy code. I will begin working on the windows version as soon as this check in is done. I
need someone to work on the Mac OS X version.
I'm afraid that this check in will break QNX (Sorry!)
author | Bob Pendleton <bob@pendleton.com> |
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date | Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:35:12 +0000 |
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<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Initializing SDL</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.76b+ "><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="SDL Library Documentation" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="The Basics" HREF="guidethebasics.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="The Basics" HREF="guidethebasics.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Graphics and Video" HREF="guidevideo.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" BGCOLOR="#FFF8DC" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000ee" VLINK="#551a8b" ALINK="#ff0000" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >SDL Library Documentation</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="guidethebasics.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Chapter 1. The Basics</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="guidevideo.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="GUIDEBASICSINIT" ></A >Initializing SDL</H1 ><P >SDL is composed of eight subsystems - Audio, CDROM, Event Handling, File I/O, Joystick Handling, Threading, Timers and Video. Before you can use any of these subsystems they must be initialized by calling <A HREF="sdlinit.html" ><TT CLASS="FUNCTION" >SDL_Init</TT ></A > (or <A HREF="sdlinitsubsystem.html" ><TT CLASS="FUNCTION" >SDL_InitSubSystem</TT ></A >). <TT CLASS="FUNCTION" >SDL_Init</TT > must be called before any other SDL function. It automatically initializes the Event Handling, File I/O and Threading subsystems and it takes a parameter specifying which other subsystems to initialize. So, to initialize the default subsystems and the Video subsystems you would call: <PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" > SDL_Init ( SDL_INIT_VIDEO );</PRE > To initialize the default subsystems, the Video subsystem and the Timers subsystem you would call: <PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" > SDL_Init ( SDL_INIT_VIDEO | SDL_INIT_TIMER );</PRE ></P ><P ><TT CLASS="FUNCTION" >SDL_Init</TT > is complemented by <A HREF="sdlquit.html" ><TT CLASS="FUNCTION" >SDL_Quit</TT ></A > (and <A HREF="sdlquitsubsystem.html" ><TT CLASS="FUNCTION" >SDL_QuitSubSystem</TT ></A >). <TT CLASS="FUNCTION" >SDL_Quit</TT > shuts down all subsystems, including the default ones. It should always be called before a SDL application exits.</P ><P >With <TT CLASS="FUNCTION" >SDL_Init</TT > and <TT CLASS="FUNCTION" >SDL_Quit</TT > firmly embedded in your programmers toolkit you can write your first and most basic SDL application. However, we must be prepare to handle errors. Many SDL functions return a value and indicates whether the function has succeeded or failed, <TT CLASS="FUNCTION" >SDL_Init</TT >, for instance, returns -1 if it could not initialize a subsystem. SDL provides a useful facility that allows you to determine exactly what the problem was, every time an error occurs within SDL an error message is stored which can be retrieved using <TT CLASS="FUNCTION" >SDL_GetError</TT >. Use this often, you can never know too much about an error.</P ><DIV CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><A NAME="AEN60" ></A ><P ><B >Example 1-1. Initializing SDL</B ></P ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >#include "SDL.h" /* All SDL App's need this */ #include <stdio.h> int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { printf("Initializing SDL.\n"); /* Initialize defaults, Video and Audio */ if((SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO|SDL_INIT_AUDIO)==-1)) { printf("Could not initialize SDL: %s.\n", SDL_GetError()); exit(-1); } printf("SDL initialized.\n"); printf("Quiting SDL.\n"); /* Shutdown all subsystems */ SDL_Quit(); printf("Quiting....\n"); exit(0); } </PRE ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="guidethebasics.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="guidevideo.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >The Basics</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="guidethebasics.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Graphics and Video</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >