Patrice Mandin
Hello,
I originally added pth support for threads in SDL 1.2 because on the Atari
platform we did not have any thread library.
I think pth support could be removed from SDL 1.3 for two reasons:
- Atari platform removed
- pth does not provides real (preemptive) threads, because it is user space,
and expect the application to call one of its function to give CPU to another
thread. So it is not exactly useful for applications, that expect threads to
run simultaneously.
The thread ID is an unsigned long so it can hold pthread_t so people can do naughty things with it.
I'm going to be adding additional useful thread API functions, but this should prevent crashes in people's existing code on 64-bit architectures.
The proper name of Apple's operating system is "Mac OS X" not "MacOS X", as can
bee seen in many places, for example http://www.apple.com/macosx/). This
contrasts the naming of the old operating system, which was called "MacOS" and
today is often refered to as "MacOS Classic".
The attached patches fixes the misuse of the name "MacOS X" in both the SDL12
and sdlweb CVS modules.
fixed bugs 159 and 160:
+ added threaded timers support
! fixed restoring sdl window focus (AV in windows message handler)
! disabled forgotten cdrom and joystick in config file.
* disabled minimizing sdl window while loosing focus.
PocketPC does not have a task bar, so it is an inconvenient and unusual
behaviour for PPC users.
+ added WIN_Paint handler for GAPI
! fixed loosing focus while using GAPI videi driver
+ added TestTimer project
* removed unnecessary macros (ENABLE_WINDIB ...) from projects
FIXME:
Change #include <stdlib.h> to #include "SDL_stdlib.h"
Change #include <string.h> to #include "SDL_string.h"
Make sure nothing else broke because of this...
I tried to compile with gcc on Tru64, and got the following error.
SDL_systimer.c:45:45: error: operator '&&' has no right operand
It succeeds if changing
#if (defined _POSIX_TIMERS && _POSIX_TIMERS > 0)
to
#if (defined _POSIX_TIMERS && _POSIX_TIMERS + 0 > 0)
To: sdl@libsdl.org
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 02:24:50 -0600
Subject: [SDL] WinCE timers, continued
Here's a strange timer for Windows CE that doesn't ignore time across
suspends. It uses GetSystemTime to keep the time continuous, and GetTicks to
get finer-grained readings than 1 second. It detects the difference between
the GetTicks time and GetSystemTime time on power-on to keep the error within
one second max.
It's not a patch on the current win32 timer code -- took one look at that and
figured it had more than enough #ifdefs already. It's windows-ce specific.
Another thing I've noticed is that the Windows CE 4.0 and newer API has
functions warn processes about suspends. This is something SDL REALLY needs
for audio in particular, because turning it off while it's playing causes
anything that uses audio to hardlock the system on power-on. Unfortunately I
don't have 4.0 to play with. :(
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
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Martin_Storsj=F6?= <martin@martin.st>
To: sdl@libsdl.org
Subject: [SDL] [PATCH] Use nanosleep on OS X
Hi,
The current version of SDL_Delay on OS X seems to always sleep at least 10
msec. OS X has nanosleep(), which performs shorter sleeps well. The
attached patch makes it use that one instead of select() as currently.
// Martin
To: sdl@libsdl.org
Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 13:59:33 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fix locking in src/timer/SYS_timer.c
SDL_SetTimer has a typo in CVS. This code was added since 1.2.8. The
result is that the SDL_timer_mutex is locked twice and never unlocked,
breaking systems that use a threaded timer implementation.
-jim
