I’m trying to load textures for an SDL2 program in a separate thread for a loading screen. My code looks something like this
Code:
int batchLoad(void *ptr) {
loop through resources
SDL_LockMutex(renderMutex);
SDL_Texture *texture = NULL;
SDL_Surface *surface = IMG_Load(("../resources/" + fileName).c_str());
if (surface) {
texture = SDL_CreateTextureFromSurface(renderer, surface);
SDL_FreeSurface(surface);
}
SDL_UnlockMutex(renderMutex);
// store texture
return 0;
}
void LoadingScreen::loadResources() {
// do some stuff
renderMutex = SDL_CreateMutex();
ScreenMap screenMap;
// init with data
SDL_Thread* load = SDL_CreateThread(batchLoad, “batchLoad”, &screenMap);
while loading {
// do work
SDL_LockMutex(renderMutex);
SDL_RenderClear(renderer);
SDL_RenderCopy(renderer, white, NULL, NULL);
// draw stuff
SDL_RenderPresent(renderer);
SDL_UnlockMutex(renderMutex);
}
SDL_WaitThread(load, NULL);
SDL_DestroyMutex(renderMutex);
SDL_DestroyMutex(satMutex);
On Windows this works perfectly fine, but on OSX I get an error at the CreateTextureFromSurface call. It segfaults with a null pointer error. Here’s the osx problem report.
Code:
Thread 10 Crashed:: batchLoad
0 libGL.dylib 0x00007fff885ead32 glGenTextures + 18
Thread 10 crashed with X86 Thread State (64-bit):
rax: 0x0000000000000000 rbx: 0x00007ff913c37ad0 rcx: 0x0000000000000001 rdx: 0x00007ff913c37b50
rdi: 0x0000000000000001 rsi: 0x00007ff913c37b50 rbp: 0x00000001157ae4d0 rsp: 0x00000001157ae4d0
r8: 0x0000000000000004 r9: 0x00007ff913c00000 r10: 0x0000000023f4e094 r11: 0x000000000abea012
r12: 0x00007ff913d1e3b0 r13: 0x00007ff913d1e3b0 r14: 0x000000000000001a r15: 0x0000000000000022
rip: 0x00007fff885ead32 rfl: 0x0000000000010246 cr2: 0x0000000000000000
and lldb
Code:
- thread #9: tid = 0xee08, 0x00007fff885ead32 libGL.dylib
glGenTextures + 18, name = 'batchLoad', stop reason = EXC_BAD_ACCESS (code=1, address=0x0) frame #0: 0x00007fff885ead32 libGL.dylib
glGenTextures + 18
libGL.dylib`glGenTextures + 18:
-> 0x7fff885ead32: movq (%rax), %rdi
0x7fff885ead35: movq 0x318(%rax), %rax
0x7fff885ead3c: movl %ecx, %esi
0x7fff885ead3e: popq %rbp
when I comment out all the thread stuff and just call batch load normally, there are no errors so I figured there has to be some concurrency issue. But I’m using a mutex for all of the renderer calls so I’m not sure what the issue could be. And then I also don’t know why it would work fine on Windows but not on OSX