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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>
date Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:35:12 +0000
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>SDL_SemWait</H1
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>SDL_SemWait&nbsp;--&nbsp;Lock a semaphore and suspend the thread if the semaphore value is zero.</DIV
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>#include "SDL.h"
#include "SDL_thread.h"</PRE
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>int <B
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>(SDL_sem *sem);</CODE
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the call is interrupted by a signal or error. If the call is successful it
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>Returns <SPAN
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>if (SDL_SemWait(my_sem) == -1) {
        return WAIT_FAILED;
}

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SDL_SemPost(my_sem);</PRE
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