SDL_COLORSPACETRANSFER(3)

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version 3.4.18 · 9 versions
, in fedora 43, fedora 44

💖 SDL_COLORSPACETRANSFER 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the SDL3 FUNCTIONS manual — yes, that SDL, the Simple Directmedia Layer one — and it's all about one lil macro named SDL_COLORSPACETRANSFER. she's small, she's mighty, and she pulls the transfer characteristics right out of an SDL_Colorspace. let's get into it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

SDL_COLORSPACETRANSFER — a macro that retrieves the transfer characteristics of an SDL_Colorspace. no cap, that's literally her whole job 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <SDL3/SDL_pixels.h>

#define SDL_COLORSPACETRANSFER(cspace)   (SDL_TransferCharacteristics)(((cspace) >> 5) & 0x1F)

look at her. shifting right by 5, masking with 0x1F, and casting the whole thing to SDL_TransferCharacteristics. bit manipulation queen 👑

🦋 MACRO PARAMETERS 🦋

  • cspace — an SDL_Colorspace to check. that's it. that's the whole input, bestie 🫶

⭐ RETURN VALUE ⭐

Returns the SDL_TransferCharacteristics of cspace. so whatever you fed in as cspace, you get its transfer characteristics back. iconic behavior honestly 💖

🧚 THREAD SAFETY 🧚

It is safe to call this macro from any thread. go wild, thread away, she does not care, she's built different 🌈

💜 AVAILABILITY 💜

This macro has been available since SDL 3.2.0. if you're on anything older... ma'am, it's giving time to upgrade 😭

heads up bestie: this is a macro, not a function, so there's no function pointer situation and no runtime lookup — it's all happening at the preprocessor level. periodt 💅

and that's the whole vibe check! this page came to you straight from the Simple Directmedia Layer crew, version SDL 3.4.18, filed under SDL_COLORSPACETRANSFER(3). mwah, go forth and decode your colorspaces, you main character 🎀✨💖

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