On 7/30/06, Tim Ansell <mithro@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > since peek is a kind of silly unthread safe function, maybe that > functionality should be removed. > Rene, what do you mean about it being unthread safe? are you just talking about the implementation of it, or something about the idea of peeking at the event queue? I don't see how peeking the queue could be inherently less thread-safe than pulling events off
Hi,
I think because you peek at the event something could in the mean time get the event. I haven't tested this myself, but this is from the report of the fastevent guy that tested the threadsafeness of SDL events. It's written somewhere on his page.