SDL_ACQUIRED_AFTER(3)

💖 SDL_ACQUIRED_AFTER(3) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the SDL3 FUNCTIONS corner of the manual, this one's a lil macro called SDL_ACQUIRED_AFTER and she's here to help your compiler be a lil smarter about threads 🧵✨

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✨ NAME ✨

SDL_ACQUIRED_AFTER — it's a wrapper around Clang thread safety analysis annotations. that's the whole vibe. no cap. 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <SDL3/SDL_mutex.h>

#define SDL_ACQUIRED_AFTER(x) \
  SDL_THREAD_ANNOTATION_ATTRIBUTE__(acquired_after(x))

like, that's literally it. one include, one define, zero drama 🎀

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so basically… please see the Clang docs, bestie, they're the main character here:

https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ThreadSafetyAnalysis.html#mutex-h

that's the source of truth, iykyk 📖🦋

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✨ AVAILABILITY ✨

this macro is available since SDL 3.2.0. so if you're on anything older, she's not there yet, sorry babe 😭

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that's the page!! ty for reading my lil manual moment 🫶 this one lives in the Simple Directmedia Layer collection, tagged SDL 3.4.18, and it's filed under SDL_ACQUIRED_AFTER(3) in the SDL3 FUNCTIONS set. mwah, periodt 💋🌈