Re: [AD] review timed-wait changes

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Hi,

What happened with the patch for 'al_wait_for_event' and
'al_wait_for_event_timed'
to remove the ALLEGRO_WAIT_FOREVER constant and use 'float' instead of 'long'
in milliseconds?

I had local changes from a Peter Wang's patch. Will it be included?
Or is it still a work in progress?

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Peter Wang <novalazy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2008-04-08, Peter Wang <novalazy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  > Implementing on Windows might be trouble. The code above,
>  >
>  >     rel_msecs = timeout->abstime - now;
>  >
>  > is incorrect if 'timeout->abstime' isn't guaranteed to be at least as
>  > late as 'now'.
>
>  Nevermind.  Externally, al_wait_for_event_until() would be based on
>  al_current_time() which accounts for wraparound.  Internally it could use
>  _al_cond_timeout_init() and _al_cond_timedwait() without problem.
>
>
>
>  Peter
>
>
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