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.
Sam Lantinga
David Ludwig