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Added gamma table support to X11. Also now supports DirectColor visuals.
author | Bob Pendleton <bob@pendleton.com> |
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date | Wed, 25 Jul 2007 21:22:55 +0000 |
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<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Multi-threaded Programming</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="SDL Reference" HREF="reference.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="SDL_CDtrack" HREF="sdlcdtrack.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="SDL_CreateThread" HREF="sdlcreatethread.html"><META NAME="KEYWORD" CONTENT="threads"><META NAME="KEYWORD" CONTENT="function"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="CHAPTER" 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="sdlcdtrack.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="sdlcreatethread.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="CHAPTER" ><H1 ><A NAME="THREAD" ></A >Chapter 12. Multi-threaded Programming</H1 ><DIV CLASS="TOC" ><DL ><DT ><B >Table of Contents</B ></DT ><DT ><A HREF="sdlcreatethread.html" >SDL_CreateThread</A > -- Creates a new thread of execution that shares its parent's properties.</DT ><DT ><A HREF="sdlthreadid.html" >SDL_ThreadID</A > -- Get the 32-bit thread identifier for the current thread.</DT ><DT ><A HREF="sdlgetthreadid.html" >SDL_GetThreadID</A > -- Get the SDL thread ID of a SDL_Thread</DT ><DT ><A HREF="sdlwaitthread.html" >SDL_WaitThread</A > -- Wait for a thread to finish.</DT ><DT ><A HREF="sdlkillthread.html" >SDL_KillThread</A > -- Gracelessly terminates the thread.</DT ><DT ><A HREF="sdlcreatemutex.html" >SDL_CreateMutex</A > -- Create a mutex</DT ><DT ><A HREF="sdldestroymutex.html" >SDL_DestroyMutex</A > -- Destroy a mutex</DT ><DT ><A HREF="sdlmutexp.html" >SDL_mutexP</A > -- Lock a mutex</DT ><DT ><A HREF="sdlmutexv.html" >SDL_mutexV</A > -- Unlock a mutex</DT ><DT ><A HREF="sdlcreatesemaphore.html" >SDL_CreateSemaphore</A > -- Creates a new semaphore and assigns an initial value to it.</DT ><DT ><A HREF="sdldestroysemaphore.html" >SDL_DestroySemaphore</A > -- Destroys a semaphore that was created by <A HREF="sdlcreatesemaphore.html" >SDL_CreateSemaphore</A >.</DT ><DT ><A HREF="sdlsemwait.html" >SDL_SemWait</A > -- Lock a semaphore and suspend the thread if the semaphore value is zero.</DT ><DT ><A HREF="sdlsemtrywait.html" >SDL_SemTryWait</A > -- Attempt to lock a semaphore but don't suspend the thread.</DT ><DT ><A HREF="sdlsemwaittimeout.html" >SDL_SemWaitTimeout</A > -- Lock a semaphore, but only wait up to a specified maximum time.</DT ><DT ><A HREF="sdlsempost.html" >SDL_SemPost</A > -- Unlock a semaphore.</DT ><DT ><A HREF="sdlsemvalue.html" >SDL_SemValue</A > -- Return the current value of a semaphore.</DT ><DT ><A HREF="sdlcreatecond.html" >SDL_CreateCond</A > -- Create a condition variable</DT ><DT ><A HREF="sdldestroycond.html" >SDL_DestroyCond</A > -- Destroy a condition variable</DT ><DT ><A HREF="sdlcondsignal.html" >SDL_CondSignal</A > -- Restart a thread wait on a condition variable</DT ><DT ><A HREF="sdlcondbroadcast.html" >SDL_CondBroadcast</A > -- Restart all threads waiting on a condition variable</DT ><DT ><A HREF="sdlcondwait.html" >SDL_CondWait</A > -- Wait on a condition variable</DT ><DT ><A HREF="sdlcondwaittimeout.html" >SDL_CondWaitTimeout</A > -- Wait on a condition variable, with timeout</DT ></DL ></DIV ><P >SDL provides functions for creating threads, mutexes, semphores and condition variables.</P ><P >In general, you must be very aware of concurrency and data integrity issues when writing multi-threaded programs. Some good guidelines include: <P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P >Don't call SDL video/event functions from separate threads</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Don't use any library functions in separate threads</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Don't perform any memory management in separate threads</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Lock global variables which may be accessed by multiple threads</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Never terminate threads, always set a flag and wait for them to quit</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Think very carefully about all possible ways your code may interact</P ></LI ></UL ></P ><DIV CLASS="NOTE" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="NOTE" ><P ><B >Note: </B >SDL's threading is not implemented on MacOS, due to that lack of preemptive thread support (Mac OS X dos nt suffer from this problem)</P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ></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="sdlcdtrack.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="sdlcreatethread.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >SDL_CDtrack</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="reference.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >SDL_CreateThread</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >