From 24e3cb462e47b22edda334939123694ff6920e95 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: givethesourceplox <itsports@proton.me>
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2026 11:09:38 -0300
Subject: core: return empty perf stats before the system is running (#30)

The SDL frontend's title timer can fire before perf_stats exists and
crashed on its null mutex during boot.

Assisted-by: Claude (Anthropic)

Co-authored-by: givethesourceplox <272928635+givethesourceplox@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 src/core/core.cpp | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

(limited to 'src/core/core.cpp')

diff --git a/src/core/core.cpp b/src/core/core.cpp
index 3728ccf8f7..64e1d8de06 100644
--- a/src/core/core.cpp
+++ b/src/core/core.cpp
@@ -496,6 +496,9 @@ struct System::Impl {
     }
 
     PerfStatsResults GetAndResetPerfStats() {
+        if (!perf_stats) {
+            return {};
+        }
         return perf_stats->GetAndResetStats(core_timing.GetGlobalTimeUs());
     }
 
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