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Programs Stop Responding
Niven
Joined: 25 Apr 2014
Posts: 2
Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2014 10:33 pm
This is a problem I have been having with every program I write since I started using SDL 2. Whenever I compile my code and run my program, everything works perfectly fine until at some point (usually after 3-8 minutes of running), the program will stop responding completely and I will have to exit out of the console to close it. The code I believe is relevant is:
If I change SDL_PollEvent(&Event) to SDL_WaitEventTimeout(&Event,100), then the problem goes away (I did that and had the program running for about an hour without it stop responding before I decided that it solved the problem), so I believe that the problem has something to do with event handling. Also, it might be noteworthy to mention that when I use SDL_WaitEventTimeout with the second parameter being a small number (because 100 milliseconds is a long time to wait and makes the program run at like 8 FPS), the problem returns.