SDL_rwops, threads and Android

SDL Development
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Hi,

I’m currently investigating an Android crash issue when using
SDL_rwops->read(…) to access assets. I’m initialising SDL in the main
thread aswell as creating an SDL_rwops pointer to a file, then I’m spawning
an extra thread and reading the SDL_rwops from there where it crashes. On a
linux desktop the same code works fine. The mistake might be my own code,
but to help me investigate the issue an answer to this question would be
helpful: is SDL_rwops supposed to be thread-safe on Android?

Regards,
Jonas Thiem

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2012/2/17 Jonas Thiem

Hi,

I’m currently investigating an Android crash issue when using
SDL_rwops->read(…) to access assets. I’m initialising SDL in the main
thread aswell as creating an SDL_rwops pointer to a file, then I’m spawning
an extra thread and reading the SDL_rwops from there where it crashes. On a
linux desktop the same code works fine. The mistake might be my own code,
but to help me investigate the issue an answer to this question would be
helpful: is SDL_rwops supposed to be thread-safe on Android?

Regards,
Jonas Thiem

The discussion in this bug report
Patch for Android: protecting threads and multitouch · Issue #382 · libsdl-org/SDL · GitHub seems to imply that the
current Android backend is not thread safe. Please ignore the multitouch
comments in there as that has been already implemented.–
Gabriel.