It was intended to make the API easier to use, but various automatic garbage collection all had flaws, and making the application periodically clean up temporary memory added cognitive load to using the API, and in many cases was it was difficult to restructure threaded code to handle this.
So, we're largely going back to the original system, where the API returns allocated results and you free them.
In addition, to solve the problems we originally wanted temporary memory for:
* Short strings with a finite count, like device names, get stored in a per-thread string pool.
* Events continue to use temporary memory internally, which is cleaned up on the next event processing cycle.
This declares that any `const char *` returned from SDL is owned by SDL, and
promises to be valid _at least_ until the next time the event queue runs, or
SDL_Quit() is called, even if the thing that owns the string gets destroyed
or changed before then.
This is noted in the headers as "the SDL_GetStringRule", so this will both be
greppable to find a detailed explaination in docs/README-strings.md and
wikiheaders will automatically turn it into a link we can point at the
appropriate documentation.
Fixes#9902.
(and several FIXMEs, both known and yet-undocumented.)
Use DBus to query Systemd to check if the pipewire-pulse service is in the "running" state. If it is, then it is certain that Pipewire is being used instead of Pulseaudio as the preferred system mixer.
If DBus support is not enabled or Systemd is not being used on the underlying system, this check will simply fail and the standard driver order will be tested.
This catches the case where we obtain a logical device while the default is
changing in another thread, so you accidentally end up with the previous
default physical device locked and returned from ObtainLogicalAudioDevice.
This updates GetAudioDevices() to have the same behavior as SDL_GetJoysticks() where the return value will only be NULL if there is an error. Returning no devices will return a valid array containing NULL.
This means the allocator's caller doesn't need to use SDL_OutOfMemory directly
if the allocation fails.
This applies to the usual allocators: SDL_malloc, SDL_calloc, SDL_realloc
(all of these regardless of if the app supplied a custom allocator or we're
using system malloc() or an internal copy of dlmalloc under the hood),
SDL_aligned_alloc, SDL_small_alloc, SDL_strdup, SDL_asprintf, SDL_wcsdup...
probably others. If it returns something you can pass to SDL_free, it should
work.
The caller might still need to use SDL_OutOfMemory if something that wasn't
SDL allocated the memory: operator new in C++ code, Objective-C's alloc
message, win32 GlobalAlloc, etc.
Fixes#8642.
This specifically deals with two threads closing the same device at the same
time, and a thread trying to reopen the device as it's still in process of
being closed. This can happen in normal usage if a device is disconnected:
the OS might send a disconnect event, while the device thread also attempts
to manage a disconnect as system calls start to report failure.
This effort is necessary because we have to release the device lock during
close to allow the device thread to unblock and cleanly shutdown. But the
good news is that all the places that call ClosePhysicalAudioDevice can now
safely hold the device lock on entry, and that one function will manage the
lock tapdancing.
ALSA is used very rarely anymore and the pipewire ALSA emulation isn't as good as using pipewire directly. The Pulseaudio emulation is very good, and Pulseaudio is still commonly available on Linux systems, so we'll default to that first and fall back to pipewire if it's not available. We'll finally try ALSA, to handle very old systems.
Fixes https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/issues/7541
This cleans up a ton of race conditions, and starts moving towards something
we can use with Clang's -Wthread-safety (but that has a ways to go still).
This can happen if you close the stream's underlying device directly, which
removes the binding but doesn't destroy the object.
In this case, the stream remains valid until destroyed, but still should not
be able to be bound to a new device.
