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Bug 1532 - SDL_TTF is currently not thread-safe
Summary: SDL_TTF is currently not thread-safe
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: SDL_ttf
Classification: Unclassified
Component: misc (show other bugs)
Version: 2.0.11
Hardware: All Linux
: P2 normal
Assignee: Sam Lantinga
QA Contact: Sam Lantinga
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Reported: 2012-07-02 06:50 UTC by Folkert van Heusden
Modified: 2012-07-02 06:51 UTC (History)
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Description Folkert van Heusden 2012-07-02 06:50:41 UTC 
SDL_TTF is currently not thread-safe. That is: SDL_TTF at itself might be thread-safe but the FreeType library underneath is not accessed in a thread-safe way.
Please consider extending SDL_TTF so that each thread can do a SDL_TTF_Init()-like call which returns a thread-specific structure containing the result of FT_Library (http://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/reference/ft2-base_interface.html#FT_Library ).