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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: "Trent Gamblin" <trent@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:45:49 -0700 (MST)
On Tue, November 18, 2008 5:00 pm, Peter Wang said:
> That's hardly trivial.
>
> Why not my suggestion, which is for the user to give over the main
> thread to Allegro, which must happen one way or another on Mac OS X.
> In
> return, Allegro starts a function of the user's choosing in a new
> thread. That's it. No tricks, no name mangling, no hidden symbols,
> no
> polling calls everywhere, no reworking your program to work as a
> non-blocking callback.
>
> Peter
I would be ok with that idea too.
Trent :{)>