Commit fde9a7086e5b1bb264250b94dc4969f39bff722b

Ryan C. Gordon 2022-04-27T12:05:07

log: Make the message buffer static. Now we don't have to worry about allocation failure, or performance issues or changes to the allocation layout when trying to track down subtle bugs.

diff --git a/src/SDL_log.c b/src/SDL_log.c
index b31574d..b56bdbb 100644
--- a/src/SDL_log.c
+++ b/src/SDL_log.c
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ GetCategoryPrefix(int category)
 void
 SDL_LogMessageV(int category, SDL_LogPriority priority, const char *fmt, va_list ap)
 {
-    char *message;
+    static char message[SDL_MAX_LOG_MESSAGE]
     size_t len;
 
     /* Nothing to do if we don't have an output function */
@@ -302,9 +302,13 @@ SDL_LogMessageV(int category, SDL_LogPriority priority, const char *fmt, va_list
         return;
     }
 
-    message = (char *) SDL_malloc(SDL_MAX_LOG_MESSAGE);
-    if (!message) {
-        return;
+    if (!log_function_mutex) {
+        /* this mutex creation can race if you log from two threads at startup. You should have called SDL_Init first! */
+        log_function_mutex = SDL_CreateMutex();
+    }
+
+    if (log_function_mutex) {
+        SDL_LockMutex(log_function_mutex);
     }
 
     SDL_vsnprintf(message, SDL_MAX_LOG_MESSAGE, fmt, ap);
@@ -318,11 +322,11 @@ SDL_LogMessageV(int category, SDL_LogPriority priority, const char *fmt, va_list
         }
     }
 
-    /* this mutex creation can race if you log from two threads at startup. You should have called SDL_Init first! */
-    if (!log_function_mutex) { log_function_mutex = SDL_CreateMutex(); }
-    if (log_function_mutex) { SDL_LockMutex(log_function_mutex); }
     SDL_log_function(SDL_log_userdata, category, priority, message);
-    if (log_function_mutex) { SDL_UnlockMutex(log_function_mutex); }
+
+    if (log_function_mutex) {
+        SDL_UnlockMutex(log_function_mutex);
+    }
 
     SDL_free(message);
 }