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The Darwin/MacOSX joystick code is largely copied from the HID Utilities package...make the symbols defined by HID Utilities static inside SDL so that an app can link against their own copy of this package without symbol clash.
author Ryan C. Gordon <icculus@icculus.org>
date Wed, 15 Jun 2005 23:41:57 +0000 (2005-06-15)
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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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><I
>sem</I
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> has a positive value,
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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>Returns <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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