SDL_thread.h

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/*
  Simple DirectMedia Layer
  Copyright (C) 1997-2018 Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org>

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*/

#ifndef SDL_thread_h_
#define SDL_thread_h_

/**
 *  \file SDL_thread.h
 *
 *  Header for the SDL thread management routines.
 */

#include "SDL_stdinc.h"
#include "SDL_error.h"

/* Thread synchronization primitives */
#include "SDL_atomic.h"
#include "SDL_mutex.h"

#include "begin_code.h"
/* Set up for C function definitions, even when using C++ */
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif

/* The SDL thread structure, defined in SDL_thread.c */
struct SDL_Thread;
typedef struct SDL_Thread SDL_Thread;

/* The SDL thread ID */
typedef unsigned long SDL_threadID;

/* Thread local storage ID, 0 is the invalid ID */
typedef unsigned int SDL_TLSID;

/**
 *  The SDL thread priority.
 *
 *  \note On many systems you require special privileges to set high or time critical priority.
 */
typedef enum {
    SDL_THREAD_PRIORITY_LOW,
    SDL_THREAD_PRIORITY_NORMAL,
    SDL_THREAD_PRIORITY_HIGH,
    SDL_THREAD_PRIORITY_TIME_CRITICAL
} SDL_ThreadPriority;

/**
 *  The function passed to SDL_CreateThread().
 *  It is passed a void* user context parameter and returns an int.
 */
typedef int (SDLCALL * SDL_ThreadFunction) (void *data);

#if defined(__WIN32__) && !defined(HAVE_LIBC)
/**
 *  \file SDL_thread.h
 *
 *  We compile SDL into a DLL. This means, that it's the DLL which
 *  creates a new thread for the calling process with the SDL_CreateThread()
 *  API. There is a problem with this, that only the RTL of the SDL2.DLL will
 *  be initialized for those threads, and not the RTL of the calling
 *  application!
 *
 *  To solve this, we make a little hack here.
 *
 *  We'll always use the caller's _beginthread() and _endthread() APIs to
 *  start a new thread. This way, if it's the SDL2.DLL which uses this API,
 *  then the RTL of SDL2.DLL will be used to create the new thread, and if it's
 *  the application, then the RTL of the application will be used.
 *
 *  So, in short:
 *  Always use the _beginthread() and _endthread() of the calling runtime
 *  library!
 */
#define SDL_PASSED_BEGINTHREAD_ENDTHREAD
#include <process.h> /* _beginthreadex() and _endthreadex() */

typedef uintptr_t(__cdecl * pfnSDL_CurrentBeginThread)
                   (void *, unsigned, unsigned (__stdcall *func)(void *),
                    void * /*arg*/, unsigned, unsigned * /* threadID */);
typedef void (__cdecl * pfnSDL_CurrentEndThread) (unsigned code);

/**
 *  Create a thread.
 */
extern DECLSPEC SDL_Thread *SDLCALL
SDL_CreateThread(SDL_ThreadFunction fn, const char *name, void *data,
                 pfnSDL_CurrentBeginThread pfnBeginThread,
                 pfnSDL_CurrentEndThread pfnEndThread);

extern DECLSPEC SDL_Thread *SDLCALL
SDL_CreateThreadWithStackSize(int (SDLCALL * fn) (void *),
                 const char *name, const size_t stacksize, void *data,
                 pfnSDL_CurrentBeginThread pfnBeginThread,
                 pfnSDL_CurrentEndThread pfnEndThread);


/**
 *  Create a thread.
 */
#if defined(SDL_CreateThread) && SDL_DYNAMIC_API
#undef SDL_CreateThread
#define SDL_CreateThread(fn, name, data) SDL_CreateThread_REAL(fn, name, data, (pfnSDL_CurrentBeginThread)_beginthreadex, (pfnSDL_CurrentEndThread)_endthreadex)
#undef SDL_CreateThreadWithStackSize
#define SDL_CreateThreadWithStackSize(fn, name, stacksize, data) SDL_CreateThreadWithStackSize_REAL(fn, name, stacksize, data, (pfnSDL_CurrentBeginThread)_beginthreadex, (pfnSDL_CurrentEndThread)_endthreadex)
#else
#define SDL_CreateThread(fn, name, data) SDL_CreateThread(fn, name, data, (pfnSDL_CurrentBeginThread)_beginthreadex, (pfnSDL_CurrentEndThread)_endthreadex)
#define SDL_CreateThreadWithStackSize(fn, name, stacksize, data) SDL_CreateThreadWithStackSize(fn, name, data, (pfnSDL_CurrentBeginThread)_beginthreadex, (pfnSDL_CurrentEndThread)_endthreadex)
#endif

#elif defined(__OS2__)
/*
 * just like the windows case above:  We compile SDL2
 * into a dll with Watcom's runtime statically linked.
 */
#define SDL_PASSED_BEGINTHREAD_ENDTHREAD
#ifndef __EMX__
#include <process.h>
#else
#include <stdlib.h>
#endif
typedef int (*pfnSDL_CurrentBeginThread)(void (*func)(void *), void *, unsigned, void * /*arg*/);
typedef void (*pfnSDL_CurrentEndThread)(void);
extern DECLSPEC SDL_Thread *SDLCALL
SDL_CreateThread(SDL_ThreadFunction fn, const char *name, void *data,
                 pfnSDL_CurrentBeginThread pfnBeginThread,
                 pfnSDL_CurrentEndThread pfnEndThread);
extern DECLSPEC SDL_Thread *SDLCALL
SDL_CreateThreadWithStackSize(SDL_ThreadFunction fn, const char *name, const size_t stacksize, void *data,
                 pfnSDL_CurrentBeginThread pfnBeginThread,
                 pfnSDL_CurrentEndThread pfnEndThread);
#if defined(SDL_CreateThread) && SDL_DYNAMIC_API
#undef SDL_CreateThread
#define SDL_CreateThread(fn, name, data) SDL_CreateThread_REAL(fn, name, data, (pfnSDL_CurrentBeginThread)_beginthread, (pfnSDL_CurrentEndThread)_endthread)
#undef SDL_CreateThreadWithStackSize
#define SDL_CreateThreadWithStackSize(fn, name, stacksize, data) SDL_CreateThreadWithStackSize_REAL(fn, name, data, (pfnSDL_CurrentBeginThread)_beginthread, (pfnSDL_CurrentEndThread)_endthread)
#else
#define SDL_CreateThread(fn, name, data) SDL_CreateThread(fn, name, data, (pfnSDL_CurrentBeginThread)_beginthread, (pfnSDL_CurrentEndThread)_endthread)
#define SDL_CreateThreadWithStackSize(fn, name, stacksize, data) SDL_CreateThreadWithStackSize(fn, name, stacksize, data, (pfnSDL_CurrentBeginThread)_beginthread, (pfnSDL_CurrentEndThread)_endthread)
#endif

#else

/**
 *  Create a thread with a default stack size.
 *
 *  This is equivalent to calling:
 *  SDL_CreateThreadWithStackSize(fn, name, 0, data);
 */
extern DECLSPEC SDL_Thread *SDLCALL
SDL_CreateThread(SDL_ThreadFunction fn, const char *name, void *data);

/**
 *  Create a thread.
 *
 *   Thread naming is a little complicated: Most systems have very small
 *    limits for the string length (Haiku has 32 bytes, Linux currently has 16,
 *    Visual C++ 6.0 has nine!), and possibly other arbitrary rules. You'll
 *    have to see what happens with your system's debugger. The name should be
 *    UTF-8 (but using the naming limits of C identifiers is a better bet).
 *   There are no requirements for thread naming conventions, so long as the
 *    string is null-terminated UTF-8, but these guidelines are helpful in
 *    choosing a name:
 *
 *    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/149932/naming-conventions-for-threads
 *
 *   If a system imposes requirements, SDL will try to munge the string for
 *    it (truncate, etc), but the original string contents will be available
 *    from SDL_GetThreadName().
 *
 *   The size (in bytes) of the new stack can be specified. Zero means "use
 *    the system default" which might be wildly different between platforms
 *    (x86 Linux generally defaults to eight megabytes, an embedded device
 *    might be a few kilobytes instead).
 *
 *   In SDL 2.1, stacksize will be folded into the original SDL_CreateThread
 *    function.
 */
extern DECLSPEC SDL_Thread *SDLCALL
SDL_CreateThreadWithStackSize(SDL_ThreadFunction fn, const char *name, const size_t stacksize, void *data);

#endif

/**
 * Get the thread name, as it was specified in SDL_CreateThread().
 *  This function returns a pointer to a UTF-8 string that names the
 *  specified thread, or NULL if it doesn't have a name. This is internal
 *  memory, not to be free()'d by the caller, and remains valid until the
 *  specified thread is cleaned up by SDL_WaitThread().
 */
extern DECLSPEC const char *SDLCALL SDL_GetThreadName(SDL_Thread *thread);

/**
 *  Get the thread identifier for the current thread.
 */
extern DECLSPEC SDL_threadID SDLCALL SDL_ThreadID(void);

/**
 *  Get the thread identifier for the specified thread.
 *
 *  Equivalent to SDL_ThreadID() if the specified thread is NULL.
 */
extern DECLSPEC SDL_threadID SDLCALL SDL_GetThreadID(SDL_Thread * thread);

/**
 *  Set the priority for the current thread
 */
extern DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_SetThreadPriority(SDL_ThreadPriority priority);

/**
 *  Wait for a thread to finish. Threads that haven't been detached will
 *  remain (as a "zombie") until this function cleans them up. Not doing so
 *  is a resource leak.
 *
 *  Once a thread has been cleaned up through this function, the SDL_Thread
 *  that references it becomes invalid and should not be referenced again.
 *  As such, only one thread may call SDL_WaitThread() on another.
 *
 *  The return code for the thread function is placed in the area
 *  pointed to by \c status, if \c status is not NULL.
 *
 *  You may not wait on a thread that has been used in a call to
 *  SDL_DetachThread(). Use either that function or this one, but not
 *  both, or behavior is undefined.
 *
 *  It is safe to pass NULL to this function; it is a no-op.
 */
extern DECLSPEC void SDLCALL SDL_WaitThread(SDL_Thread * thread, int *status);

/**
 *  A thread may be "detached" to signify that it should not remain until
 *  another thread has called SDL_WaitThread() on it. Detaching a thread
 *  is useful for long-running threads that nothing needs to synchronize
 *  with or further manage. When a detached thread is done, it simply
 *  goes away.
 *
 *  There is no way to recover the return code of a detached thread. If you
 *  need this, don't detach the thread and instead use SDL_WaitThread().
 *
 *  Once a thread is detached, you should usually assume the SDL_Thread isn't
 *  safe to reference again, as it will become invalid immediately upon
 *  the detached thread's exit, instead of remaining until someone has called
 *  SDL_WaitThread() to finally clean it up. As such, don't detach the same
 *  thread more than once.
 *
 *  If a thread has already exited when passed to SDL_DetachThread(), it will
 *  stop waiting for a call to SDL_WaitThread() and clean up immediately.
 *  It is not safe to detach a thread that might be used with SDL_WaitThread().
 *
 *  You may not call SDL_WaitThread() on a thread that has been detached.
 *  Use either that function or this one, but not both, or behavior is
 *  undefined.
 *
 *  It is safe to pass NULL to this function; it is a no-op.
 */
extern DECLSPEC void SDLCALL SDL_DetachThread(SDL_Thread * thread);

/**
 *  \brief Create an identifier that is globally visible to all threads but refers to data that is thread-specific.
 *
 *  \return The newly created thread local storage identifier, or 0 on error
 *
 *  \code
 *  static SDL_SpinLock tls_lock;
 *  static SDL_TLSID thread_local_storage;
 * 
 *  void SetMyThreadData(void *value)
 *  {
 *      if (!thread_local_storage) {
 *          SDL_AtomicLock(&tls_lock);
 *          if (!thread_local_storage) {
 *              thread_local_storage = SDL_TLSCreate();
 *          }
 *          SDL_AtomicUnlock(&tls_lock);
 *      }
 *      SDL_TLSSet(thread_local_storage, value, 0);
 *  }
 *  
 *  void *GetMyThreadData(void)
 *  {
 *      return SDL_TLSGet(thread_local_storage);
 *  }
 *  \endcode
 *
 *  \sa SDL_TLSGet()
 *  \sa SDL_TLSSet()
 */
extern DECLSPEC SDL_TLSID SDLCALL SDL_TLSCreate(void);

/**
 *  \brief Get the value associated with a thread local storage ID for the current thread.
 *
 *  \param id The thread local storage ID
 *
 *  \return The value associated with the ID for the current thread, or NULL if no value has been set.
 *
 *  \sa SDL_TLSCreate()
 *  \sa SDL_TLSSet()
 */
extern DECLSPEC void * SDLCALL SDL_TLSGet(SDL_TLSID id);

/**
 *  \brief Set the value associated with a thread local storage ID for the current thread.
 *
 *  \param id The thread local storage ID
 *  \param value The value to associate with the ID for the current thread
 *  \param destructor A function called when the thread exits, to free the value.
 *
 *  \return 0 on success, -1 on error
 *
 *  \sa SDL_TLSCreate()
 *  \sa SDL_TLSGet()
 */
extern DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_TLSSet(SDL_TLSID id, const void *value, void (SDLCALL *destructor)(void*));


/* Ends C function definitions when using C++ */
#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif
#include "close_code.h"

#endif /* SDL_thread_h_ */

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