For stable releases, this gives us the ability to make bugfix-only point
releases such as 2.24.1 if we want to, and distinguish between them
programmatically. For example, this ability could have been useful after
2.0.16 to fix Xwayland regressions, and after 2.0.18 to fix event loop
regressions.
For development releases, this gives us the ability to make multiple
prereleases during the same feature cycle, and distinguish between them
programmatically. For example, this would have been useful during 2.0.22
development, which went through three prereleases before reaching the
final release.
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
Now that we've said this will be removed from SDL 3, we're free to use
any encoding that is compatible with existing SDL versions and will still
compare correctly for all SDL 2 version numbers. This allows the SDL 2
minor version to go beyond 1 digit, limited only by the size of
SDL_version.minor (which is 8 bits), making the largest possible version
number 2.255.99.
The patchlevel (micro version) is still limited to 2 digits.
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
The encoding used in SDL_VERSIONNUM (e.g. 2.0.22 -> 2022) cannot
represent 2-digit minor versions without overflowing from the hundreds
digit into the thousands digit, which produces confusing version
numbers that will compare incorrectly when the major version is increased
to 3.
However, we can sidestep this problem by declaring that SDL_VERSIONNUM
will no longer be present in SDL 3, which means it only needs to be able
to represent SDL 2 version numbers losslessly.
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
This comparison normally happens at compile-time, not at runtime, so
it doesn't matter if it isn't optimal. This avoids incorrect comparison
if the minor version in SDL_COMPILEDVERSION and SDL_VERSIONNUM has more
than one digit, which would cause it to overflow from the hundreds place
into the thousands place.
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
The internal function SDL_EGL_LoadLibrary() did not delete and remove a mostly
uninitialized data structure if loading the library first failed. A later try to
use EGL then skipped initialization and assumed it was previously successful
because the data structure now already existed. This led to at least one crash
in the internal function SDL_EGL_ChooseConfig() because a NULL pointer was
dereferenced to make a call to eglBindAPI().
Sam Lantinga
Simon McVittie
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Ryan C. Gordon
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