LOCK_FUNCTION(3)

💖 NAME 💖

LOCK_FUNCTION — locks the memory of a function used by a timer. This is from the Allegro manual, section 3, and it's part of the Allegro game programming library. No cap. ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

okay so the synopsis is giving very minimal, very iconic:

#include <allegro.h>

Macro LOCK_FUNCTION(function_name);

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay bestie, here's the tea: due to interrupts, you are required to lock all the memory used by your timer routines. That's not a suggestion, that's the rule. 💅

for a more detailed explanation and a usage example, go read the description of install_int_ex(). 🫶

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

the girls that reference each other:

• install_int(3)
• install_int_ex(3)
• exkeys(3)
• exscn3d(3)
• exsprite(3)
• exswitch(3)
• extimer(3)
• exupdate(3)
• exzbuf(3)

mwah 💋 this was Allegro version 4.4.3, and yes, you just read the LOCK_FUNCTION(3) page. periodt. 🫶