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

/* Not all environments have a working getenv()/putenv() */

#if defined(macintosh) || defined(_WIN32_WCE)
#define NEED_SDL_GETENV
#endif

#ifdef NEED_SDL_GETENV

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

/* Put a variable of the form "name=value" into the environment */
extern DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_putenv(const char *variable);
#define putenv(X)   SDL_putenv(X)

/* Retrieve a variable named "name" from the environment */
extern DECLSPEC char * SDLCALL SDL_getenv(const char *name);
#define getenv(X)     SDL_getenv(X)

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

#endif /* NEED_GETENV */