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From Patrice Mandin: "Just a request about test subdirectory: the autotools files (config.guess, config.sub, etc...) are a bit outdated, and I have to update them for my cross-compilation party. So it would be nice to have these updated. ... Just removing these files works, because then configure will use those of SDL's topdir. Could someone else check this, just to be sure? i.e. remove config.guess, config.sub, install-sh and mkinstalldirs from test subdir." I tested on Linux and MacOSX...seems to be safe, so I'm nuking the files. --ryan.
author Ryan C. Gordon <icculus@icculus.org>
date Sat, 20 Aug 2005 21:39:06 +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_SemWait</B
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>(SDL_sem *sem);</CODE
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> suspends the calling thread until either
the semaphore pointed to by <TT
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>sem</I
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the call is interrupted by a signal or error. If the call is successful it
will atomically decrement the semaphore value.</P
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>After <TT
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>SDL_SemWait()</TT
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can be released and its count atomically incremented by a successful call to
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>Returns <SPAN
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>-1</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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>SDL_SemWaitTimeout</TT
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