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Bug 935

Summary: Removing pth library support from SDL 1.3
Product: SDL Reporter: Patrice Mandin <patmandin>
Component: threadAssignee: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P2    
Version: HG 2.0   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   

Description Patrice Mandin 2010-01-21 10:18:10 UTC 
Hello,

I originally added pth support for threads in SDL 1.2 because on the Atari platform we did not have any thread library.

I think pth support could be removed from SDL 1.3 for two reasons:

- Atari platform removed

- pth does not provides real (preemptive) threads, because it is user space, and expect the application to call one of its function to give CPU to another thread. So it is not exactly useful for applications, that expect threads to run simultaneously.
Comment 1 Sam Lantinga 2010-01-24 12:46:49 UTC 
You got it!
Committed revision 5539.