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matt rochon
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Posted: 26th Jul 2005 10:02
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has anyone played around with multithreading their applications?

Im a linux guy so I like using pthreads, any idea if this will take a dump when i try to run it?

it should be fine as long as all the dsdk commands use _stdcall signatures... ideally...
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IanM
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Posted: 26th Jul 2005 21:48
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Unfortunately, the SDK is compiled in single-threaded mode - something I requested a change for even before release.

This means that you should *not* use threads in your main program, unless you can guarantee that you use none of the standard C/C++ library calls, or any SDK calls in your thread - none of these are thread safe.

All of the SDK commands use __cdecl, but that shouldn't be a problem. I don't understand how it could be ...

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matt rochon
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Posted: 27th Jul 2005 02:56
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oh its just i ran into a problem with threads when i was using some _fastcall signatures and it took me 4 days to figure out why it was breaking... im kinda paranoid about it now

but thats too bad about threads not working so well... i was going to have a thread that is responsible for loading resources...
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