Re: [Arianne-devel] Threading reworks.... HELP PLEASE!

[chuck t <pyr...@ho...>]

I'm still reading the list... I don't think I can be of much help in this 
case, but Who knows maybe I'll see something that just looks wrong...  If I 
do find anything I'll E-mail this list again.






>From: "SkyFlash" <sky...@ch...>
>Reply-To: ari...@li...
>To: 
><ari...@li...>,<ari...@li...>
>Subject: [Arianne-devel] Threading reworks.... HELP PLEASE!
>Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 18:16:28 -0700
>
>Ok... now I think we need some threading experts here....
>I got multiple crash bugs now and all are related to the usage of
>SDL_Mutex.
>
>I never worked with them, but the way Arianne used them seems very..
>hum.. weird. Is there anyone that knows how to use the Mutex stuff
>correctly so it doesnt produce memory access violations by the dozen?
>
>I already downloaded the SDL source and tried to find bugs or just
>reasons in there why it would crash, but it finally came down to a
>windows API call that I know very well and that wont produce bugs like
>that. So it must be inside the Arianne code, I think the Mutex class is
>broke (or the templock class?), but I may be wrong.
>
>Can anyone please check the Mutex class and analyse it for bugs, it uses
>a weird fake-const call and I dont know who programmed that and why, or
>whether it works or not.
>
>Really I cant do anymore programming til that is fixed, and if I have to
>fix it I will have to delete everything and start from scratch, cause I
>already failed with every other way. :P
>
>SkyFlash
>
>
>P.S:  At least please someone write an email, I get the impression I am
>all alone here... ;)
>
>P.P.S: Sorry for my crossposting but the dev ML seems to be dead... so
>maybe general is better...
>
>
>
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