SDL_LogTrace(3)

✨ SDL_LogTrace(3) ✨

okay bestie, quick vibe check: this is a page from the SDL3 FUNCTIONS section of the manual (the whole thing is the Simple Directmedia Layer, and yes we'll get to that at the end 🫶). It's all about SDL_LogTrace — your lil' bestie for whispering trace-level messages into the log. iykyk 💅

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🎀 NAME 🎀

SDL_LogTrace — logs a message with SDL_LOG_PRIORITY_TRACE. literally that's it, that's the job, and she does it flawlessly ✨

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <SDL3/SDL_log.h>

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

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🦋 FUNCTION PARAMETERS 🦋

• category — the category of the message. that's the lil' tag so you know what part of your app is yapping 📢
• fmt — a printf() style message format string. yes, the classic, iconic, never-miss format string 💖
• ... — additional parameters matching % tokens in the fmt string, if any. no tokens? no extra args, no problem, she's flexible like that 🧚

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🔥 THREAD SAFETY 🔥

It is safe to call this function from any thread. every thread can get a turn to speak, main character energy for everyone, no gatekeeping 👑

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⭐ AVAILABILITY ⭐

This function is available since SDL 3.2.0. so if you're on anything older... babe. upgrade. 🙈

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

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

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and that's the whole page, bestie, no notes 💅💖 brought to you by Simple Directmedia Layer, version SDL 3.4.18 — the source of all this iconicness — and the date lives in the footer alongside it, slay 🌈✨🦋