SDL_RELEASE_GENERIC(3)

πŸ’– SDL_RELEASE_GENERIC πŸ’–

okay bestie, welcome to the SDL3 FUNCTIONS corner of the man pages, where today's main character is SDL_RELEASE_GENERIC β€” a macro that's literally just a glow-up wrapper around Clang thread safety analysis annotations. it's giving "i'm a one-line macro but i'm important, actually." ✨


🌸 NAME 🌸

SDL_RELEASE_GENERIC β€” a wrapper around Clang thread safety analysis annotations. that's it. that's the whole job. she's tiny but she's iconic. πŸ’…


πŸŽ€ SYNOPSIS πŸŽ€

#include <SDL3/SDL_mutex.h>

#define SDL_RELEASE_GENERIC(x) \
  SDL_THREAD_ANNOTATION_ATTRIBUTE__(release_generic_capability(x))

no cap, that's the entire thing. include the header, get the macro, pass it your x, done. πŸ¦‹


πŸ’œ DESCRIPTION πŸ’œ

so like… the actual explanation lives somewhere else, and i'm not gonna make stuff up because that's not the vibe. the docs say:

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

go read that, bestie. it's the source of truth and it's right there. πŸ”₯


✨ AVAILABILITY ✨

this macro is available since SDL 3.2.0. if you're on anything older, sorry babe, she hasn't been born yet. 😭


Simple Directmedia Layer 🌈 SDL 3.4.18 πŸŽ€ SDL_RELEASE_GENERIC(3) β€” mwah, that's a wrap, go annotate something safely πŸ’–πŸ«Ά

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