Alex Szpakowski
SDL's Cocoa backend uses the CGDisplayMode API to get refresh rate information about a display mode, but CGDisplayModeGetRefreshRate will return 0 on most non-CRT monitors.
The only way I know of to get correct refresh rate information in OS X is via the CoreVideo DisplayLink API.
I have attached a patch which tries to use the CVDisplayLinkGetNominalOutputVideoRefreshPeriod function if CGDisplayModeGetRefreshRate fails, which fixes display mode refresh rate information on the monitors I tested.
The CVDisplayLink API requires linking with the CoreVideo framework, and the patch updates the various build files to do so.
binarycrusader
Since changeset 358696c354a8, SDL 2.0 has been broken on Solaris when compiling with the Solaris Studio compiler (which uses the pthread implementation of SDL_AtomicLock).
Notably, it gets stuck at the MemoryBarrierRelease in SDL_GetErrBuf:
6585 # 218
6586 if (!tls_errbuf && !tls_being_created) {
6587 SDL_AtomicLock_REAL ( & tls_lock );
6588 if (!tls_errbuf) {
6589 SDL_TLSID slot;
6590 tls_being_created = SDL_TRUE;
6591 slot = SDL_TLSCreate_REAL ( );
6592 tls_being_created = SDL_FALSE;
6593 { SDL_SpinLock _tmp = 0 ; SDL_AtomicLock_REAL ( & _tmp ) ; SDL_AtomicUnlock_REAL ( & _tmp ) ; };
^^^ loops forever above
6594 tls_errbuf = slot;
6595 }
6596 SDL_AtomicUnlock_REAL ( & tls_lock );
6597 }
Running: testthread
(process id 28926)
^Cdbx: warning: Interrupt ignored but forwarded to child.
signal INT (Interrupt) in __nanosleep at 0xfe52a875
0xfe52a875: __nanosleep+0x0015: jae __nanosleep+0x23 [ 0xfe52a883, .+0xe ]
Current function is SDL_Delay_REAL
204 was_error = nanosleep(&tv, &elapsed);
(dbx) where
[1] __nanosleep(0xfeffe848, 0xfeffe850, 0xfe75a5ac, 0xfe5169d8), at 0xfe52a875
[2] nanosleep(0xfeffe848, 0xfeffe850), at 0xfe516a3b
=>[3] SDL_Delay_REAL(ms = 0), line 204 in "SDL_systimer.c"
[4] SDL_AtomicLock_REAL(lock = 0xfeffe88c), line 104 in "SDL_spinlock.c"
[5] SDL_GetErrBuf(), line 225 in "SDL_thread.c"
[6] SDL_ClearError_REAL(), line 216 in "SDL_error.c"
[7] SDL_InitSubSystem_REAL(flags = 0), line 116 in "SDL.c"
[8] SDL_Init_REAL(flags = 0), line 244 in "SDL.c"
[9] SDL_Init(a = 0), line 89 in "SDL_dynapi_procs.h"
[10] main(argc = 1, argv = 0xfeffe948), line 65 in "testthread.c"
As far as I can tell, this is because pthread_spin_trylock() always returns EBUSY for this particular lock; since it works in other places, I'm suspicious.
Different Solaris Studio compiler versions seem to make no difference.
I've verified this is broken on Linux as well if SDL_spinlock.c is modified to use the pthread implementation.
This appears to be because pthread_spin_init() and pthread_spin_destroy() are not used with the locks as required.
Alex Szpakowski
Now that SDL on iOS requires CoreMotion to be linked, some of the Xcode projects included with the SDL source (such as the iOS tests and the iOS app template) as well as the premake and automake scripts need to be updated.
I've attached a patch which does so. It also fixes the SDL Xcode project to build for 64-bit ARM as well as armv7 by default (or whatever the default ARM targets are for the Xcode version used), which is what the iOS app template expects.
Alex Szpakowski
SDL's code for exposing the accelerometer as a joystick on iOS currently uses UIAccelerometer, which was superseded by the CoreMotion framework and deprecated since iOS 5.
The UIAccelerometer code still works (for now), but it also throws deprecation warnings whenever SDL is built for iOS, since SDL's deployment target is no longer below iOS 5.
I've created a patch which replaces the old UIAccelerometer code with a replacement based on the CoreMotion framework. It has identical functionality (to SDL users), however iOS apps are now required to link to the CoreMotion framework when using SDL.
Sam Lantinga
David Ludwig