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- To: Coordination of admins/developers of the game programming library Allegro <alleg-developers@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [AD] END_OF_MAIN removal patch for msvc
- From: Evert Glebbeek <eglebbk@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:25:58 -0500
On 18 Nov 2008, at 18:07, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
Yeah, I'm not sure going whole hog on the event system is the right
direction,
but neither are hacks like END_OF_MAIN.
END_OF_MAIN() actually works fairly well though, and it has the
distinct advantage of being very easy to change into a no-op on
platforms that dont (or no longer) need it. So unless there's a way
to truely make it a no-op on all platforms, maybe the best course of
action is the conservative course of action: not touch it.
As hacks go it also isn't horrible, I've seen far worse. The ucontext
stuff sounds like a bad hack, but if it's actually part of the OS...
I don't know.
Anyway, while A5 is still in WIP stage at the moment, it should be
getting close to feature freeze or we're never going to make a spring
release date. Do we really want to discuss large changes to the
design (eg, changing the way Allegro works, mandating a message system)?
Evert