SDL_NS_TO_SECONDS(3)

💖 SDL_NS_TO_SECONDS 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the SDL3 functions manual, page for SDL_NS_TO_SECONDS(3) — yes that's the one, you found it, you're doing amazing 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

SDL_NS_TO_SECONDS — convert nanoseconds to seconds. that's it. that's the whole job. she's simple, she's iconic, she's a macro 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <SDL3/SDL_timer.h>

#define SDL_NS_TO_SECONDS(NS)   ((NS) / SDL_NS_PER_SECOND)

look at her. one line. no notes. ✨

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so what she does is divide. that's the whole vibe. you hand her some nanoseconds, she hands you back seconds, periodt.

BUT — and this is the part where you gotta pay attention bestie, no cap — because it's literally just a division, the results can be dramatically different depending on whether NS is an integer or a floating point value. like, not a little different. dramatically different. the way that one type versus the other changes everything?? yeah. keep that in mind, iykyk 💀

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🎀 MACRO PARAMETERS 🎀

• NS — the number of nanoseconds you wanna convert, girl. hand it over. 🙈

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⭐ RETURN VALUE ⭐

returns NS, but expressed in seconds. glow up complete. 👑

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🌈 THREAD SAFETY 🌈

it is safe to call this macro from any thread. any. thread. she does not care. she is unbothered. she is thriving. 💜

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👑 AVAILABILITY 👑

this macro has been available since SDL 3.2.0. so if you're on something older, sorry babe, you're not invited to the function 😭

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ok real talk though — the integer vs floating point thing is the actual plot twist of this page. don't skip it. fr fr.

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Simple Directmedia Layer 🦋 SDL 3.4.18 — that's the source and the version, mwah, thanks for reading bestie, go convert some nanoseconds, you ate 💅✨