Von: Thomas Zimmermann Betreff: [SDL] [PATCH] Make static variables const Datum: Tue, 19 May 2009 19:45:37 +0200 Hi, this is a set of simple changes which make some of SDL's internal static arrays constant. The purpose is to shrink the number of write-able static bytes and thus increase the number of memory pages shared between SDL applications. The patch set is against trunk@4513. Each of the attached patch files is specific to a sub-system. The set is completed by a second mail, because of the list's 40 KiB limit. The files readelf-r4513.txt and readelf-const-patch.txt where made by calling 'readelf -S libSDL.so'. They show the difference in ELF sections without and with the patch. Some numbers measured on my x86-64: Before [13] .rodata PROGBITS 00000000000eaaa0 000eaaa0 0000000000008170 0000000000000000 A 0 0 32 [19] .data.rel.ro PROGBITS 00000000003045e0 001045e0 00000000000023d0 0000000000000000 WA 0 0 32 [23] .data PROGBITS 00000000003076e0 001076e0 0000000000004988 0000000000000000 WA 0 0 32 After [13] .rodata PROGBITS 00000000000eaaa0 000eaaa0 0000000000009a50 0000000000000000 A 0 0 32 [19] .data.rel.ro PROGBITS 0000000000306040 00106040 0000000000002608 0000000000000000 WA 0 0 32 [23] .data PROGBITS 0000000000309360 00109360 0000000000002e88 0000000000000000 WA 0 0 32 The size of the write-able data section decreased considerably. Some entries became const-after-relocation, while most of its content went straight into the read-only data section. Best regards, Thomas

TestiPhoneOS.xcodeproj contains targets to compile many of the SDL test programs for iPhone OS.  Most of these test programs work fine, with the following exceptions:

testalpha:
	Program crashes.  Problem appears to effect Mac OS X as well.

testhread:
	SIGTERM kills the process immediately without executing the 'kill' function.  The posix standard says this shouldn't happen.  Apple seems intent on having iPhone apps exit promptly when the user requests it, so maybe that's why(?)

testlock:
	Locks appear to work, but there doesn't appear to be a simple way to send the process SIGINT.

testpalette:
	"SDL error: blitting boat: Blit combination not supported."  Happens on Mac OS X as well.

testsprite2: 
	SDL_CreateTextureFromSurface requests an ARGB pixel format, but iPhone's SDL video driver only supports ABGR.

testwin:
	Behaves as it does under Mac OS X ... not sure if that is correctly or not.

threadwin:
	Works if -threaded is not on.  Otherwise it doesn't work, but this is true under Mac OS X as well.