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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 13:09:32 +0300
From: Tommi Kyntola <tommi.kyntola@ray.fi>
To: sdl@libsdl.org
Subject: [SDL] [RFC] get_ticks broken on linux
It uses gettimeofday to calculate the timedifference.
Gettimeofday returns current time which is seldom monotonous.
This breaks SDL timer subsystem. (time callbacks and all that
get borked when the time difference ms is suddenly ~ 2^32)
I posted a message about this earlier but got no response.
Some thoughts on this matter would be appreciated.
(Or even an explanation for the lack of interest.)
A patch below would use the posix timers that have been around
since posix 93 and do provide a good source of monotonous time
on linux boxes (and on few others too).
The following patch is also availabe at:
http://www.hut.fi/u/tkyntola/SDL-1.2.9-clockfix.patch
It's against 1.2.9, but I can easily rediffit against
the cvs branch is needed.
cheers,
Tommi Kyntola tommi.kyntola@ray.fi
author | Ryan C. Gordon <icculus@icculus.org> |
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date | Tue, 11 Oct 2005 18:16:12 +0000 |
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<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >SDL_AudioSpec</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="Audio" HREF="audio.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Audio" HREF="audio.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="SDL_OpenAudio" HREF="sdlopenaudio.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="REFENTRY" 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="audio.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="sdlopenaudio.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="SDLAUDIOSPEC" ></A >SDL_AudioSpec</H1 ><DIV CLASS="REFNAMEDIV" ><A NAME="AEN6507" ></A ><H2 >Name</H2 >SDL_AudioSpec -- Audio Specification Structure</DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN6510" ></A ><H2 >Structure Definition</H2 ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >typedef struct{ int freq; Uint16 format; Uint8 channels; Uint8 silence; Uint16 samples; Uint32 size; void (*callback)(void *userdata, Uint8 *stream, int len); void *userdata; } SDL_AudioSpec;</PRE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN6513" ></A ><H2 >Structure Data</H2 ><DIV CLASS="INFORMALTABLE" ><A NAME="AEN6515" ></A ><P ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" CLASS="CALSTABLE" ><TBODY ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" ><TT CLASS="STRUCTFIELD" ><I >freq</I ></TT ></TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" >Audio frequency in samples per second</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" ><TT CLASS="STRUCTFIELD" ><I >format</I ></TT ></TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" >Audio data format</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" ><TT CLASS="STRUCTFIELD" ><I >channels</I ></TT ></TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" >Number of channels: 1 mono, 2 stereo</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" ><TT CLASS="STRUCTFIELD" ><I >silence</I ></TT ></TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" >Audio buffer silence value (calculated)</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" ><TT CLASS="STRUCTFIELD" ><I >samples</I ></TT ></TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" >Audio buffer size in samples</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" ><TT CLASS="STRUCTFIELD" ><I >size</I ></TT ></TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" >Audio buffer size in bytes (calculated)</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" ><TT CLASS="STRUCTFIELD" ><I >callback(..)</I ></TT ></TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" >Callback function for filling the audio buffer</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" ><TT CLASS="STRUCTFIELD" ><I >userdata</I ></TT ></TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" >Pointer the user data which is passed to the callback function</TD ></TR ></TBODY ></TABLE ><P ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN6550" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><P >The <SPAN CLASS="STRUCTNAME" >SDL_AudioSpec</SPAN > structure is used to describe the format of some audio data. This structure is used by <A HREF="sdlopenaudio.html" ><TT CLASS="FUNCTION" >SDL_OpenAudio</TT ></A > and <A HREF="sdlloadwav.html" ><TT CLASS="FUNCTION" >SDL_LoadWAV</TT ></A >. While all fields are used by <TT CLASS="FUNCTION" >SDL_OpenAudio</TT > only <TT CLASS="STRUCTFIELD" ><I >freq</I ></TT >, <TT CLASS="STRUCTFIELD" ><I >format</I ></TT >, <TT CLASS="STRUCTFIELD" ><I >samples</I ></TT > and <TT CLASS="STRUCTFIELD" ><I >channels</I ></TT > are used by <TT CLASS="FUNCTION" >SDL_LoadWAV</TT >. We will detail these common members here.</P ><DIV CLASS="INFORMALTABLE" ><A NAME="AEN6564" ></A ><P ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" CLASS="CALSTABLE" ><TBODY ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" ><TT CLASS="STRUCTFIELD" ><I >freq</I ></TT ></TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" ><P >The number of samples sent to the sound device every second. Common values are 11025, 22050 and 44100. The higher the better.</P ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" ><TT CLASS="STRUCTFIELD" ><I >format</I ></TT ></TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" ><P >Specifies the size and type of each sample element <P ></P ><DIV CLASS="VARIABLELIST" ><DL ><DT ><TT CLASS="LITERAL" >AUDIO_U8</TT ></DT ><DD ><P >Unsigned 8-bit samples</P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="LITERAL" >AUDIO_S8</TT ></DT ><DD ><P >Signed 8-bit samples</P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="LITERAL" >AUDIO_U16</TT > or <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >AUDIO_U16LSB</TT ></DT ><DD ><P >Unsigned 16-bit little-endian samples</P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="LITERAL" >AUDIO_S16</TT > or <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >AUDIO_S16LSB</TT ></DT ><DD ><P >Signed 16-bit little-endian samples</P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="LITERAL" >AUDIO_U16MSB</TT ></DT ><DD ><P >Unsigned 16-bit big-endian samples</P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="LITERAL" >AUDIO_S16MSB</TT ></DT ><DD ><P >Signed 16-bit big-endian samples</P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="LITERAL" >AUDIO_U16SYS</TT ></DT ><DD ><P >Either <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >AUDIO_U16LSB</TT > or <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >AUDIO_U16MSB</TT > depending on you systems endianness</P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="LITERAL" >AUDIO_S16SYS</TT ></DT ><DD ><P >Either <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >AUDIO_S16LSB</TT > or <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >AUDIO_S16MSB</TT > depending on you systems endianness</P ></DD ></DL ></DIV ></P ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" ><TT CLASS="STRUCTFIELD" ><I >channels</I ></TT ></TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" >The number of seperate sound channels. 1 is mono (single channel), 2 is stereo (dual channel).</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" ><TT CLASS="STRUCTFIELD" ><I >samples</I ></TT ></TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" >When used with <A HREF="sdlopenaudio.html" ><TT CLASS="FUNCTION" >SDL_OpenAudio</TT ></A > this refers to the size of the audio buffer in samples. A sample a chunk of audio data of the size specified in <TT CLASS="PARAMETER" ><I >format</I ></TT > mulitplied by the number of channels. When the <SPAN CLASS="STRUCTNAME" >SDL_AudioSpec</SPAN > is used with <A HREF="sdlloadwav.html" ><TT CLASS="FUNCTION" >SDL_LoadWAV</TT ></A > <TT CLASS="STRUCTFIELD" ><I >samples</I ></TT > is set to 4096.</TD ></TR ></TBODY ></TABLE ><P ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN6639" ></A ><H2 >See Also</H2 ><P ><A HREF="sdlopenaudio.html" ><TT CLASS="FUNCTION" >SDL_OpenAudio</TT ></A >, <A HREF="sdlloadwav.html" ><TT CLASS="FUNCTION" >SDL_LoadWAV</TT ></A ></P ></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="audio.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="sdlopenaudio.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Audio</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="audio.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >SDL_OpenAudio</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >