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.
SDL_SemWaitTimeout in src/thread/generic/SDL_syssem.c line 179 (SVN trunk):
--sem->count;
should be
if (retval == 0) {
--sem->count;
}
Without this, sem->count will underflow on timeout effectively breaking the
semaphore. It appears that the implementation has been wrong since the initial
revision.
SDL_SemValue() always returns 0. That's because the underlying POSIX
sem_getvalue() is implemented as a noop in Mac OS X. Apart from that,
semaphores do work properly (at least according to test/testsem), so I'm not
sure if this is worth fixing at all.
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...