SDL_LogCritical(3)

💖 SDL_LogCritical(3) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the SDL3 FUNCTIONS corner of the manual, where today's main character is SDL_LogCritical 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

SDL_LogCritical — logs a message with SDL_LOG_PRIORITY_CRITICAL. that's it, that's the whole vibe. it's the "girl, something is ON FIRE" tier of logging 🔥

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <SDL3/SDL_log.h>

void SDL_LogCritical(int category, const char *fmt, ...);

like look at her. short. elegant. devastating. 💅

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🦋 FUNCTION PARAMETERS 🦋

• category — the category of the message. it's giving "which department is this chaos coming from" 🏷️
• fmt — a printf() style message format string. yes, the classic % tokens, we love a format string 🧚
• ... — additional parameters matching % tokens in the fmt string, if any. if there aren't any, no worries, it's optional ✨

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🔥 THREAD SAFETY 🔥

It is safe to call this function from any thread. any thread bestie, ANY of them 🌈👑

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💜 AVAILABILITY 💜

This function is available since SDL 3.2.0. so if you're on something older... it's giving not yet, babe 😭

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🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

• SDL_Log(3)
• SDL_LogDebug(3)
• SDL_LogError(3)
• SDL_LogInfo(3)
• SDL_LogMessage(3)
• SDL_LogMessageV(3)
• SDL_LogTrace(3)
• SDL_LogVerbose(3)
• SDL_LogWarn(3)

the whole log family, a whole friend group honestly 🫶

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ngl, critical means critical. this is the loudest thing in the log priority lineup — save it for when stuff is genuinely going wrong, not for "hmm the texture looks slightly off" 🙈

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okay that's the page!! 💖 brought to you by Simple Directmedia Layer, version SDL 3.4.18, and this exact SDL_LogCritical(3) page — mwah, slay, periodt 💅✨🎀