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- Subject: Re: [AD] Exorcising END_OF_MAIN for Allegro 5
- From: Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:04:21 +0200
On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 09:37 +0100, Peter Hull wrote:
> FWIW, SDL also has a magic main* and they do also have an event
> function, so there may be other issues which I'm not aware of.
>
> Pete
>
> * as far as I can tell from looking at the v1.2 source.
>
Also says so on their website:
http://libsdl.org/cgi/docwiki.cgi/FAQ_MacOS_X_SDLMain.m
However, I think they have the user main() run in the main thread
regardless, and require you to poll events regulary. With a threading
API, that's no problem, as you can offload long calculations to another
thread easily.
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Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx>