SDL_ReleaseGPUShader(3)

💖 SDL_ReleaseGPUShader 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the SDL3 FUNCTIONS corner of the manual, this one's short and sweet and honestly kinda iconic 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

SDL_ReleaseGPUShader — frees the given shader as soon as it is safe to do so 🦋

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <SDL3/SDL_gpu.h>

void SDL_ReleaseGPUShader(
    SDL_GPUDevice *device,
    SDL_GPUShader *shader);

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

She releases the shader for you, but like… on her own schedule 🎀

fr fr tho: you must not reference the shader after calling this function. not once. not even a lil peek. it's gone, she's gone, we don't talk about her anymore 😭

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✨ FUNCTION PARAMETERS ✨

• device — a GPU context 🫶
• shader — a shader to be destroyed 💀

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✨ AVAILABILITY ✨

this queen has been serving since SDL 3.2.0 ✨👑

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that's the whole page bestie, no cap, we ate and left no crumbs 🌸

this was brought to you by Simple Directmedia Layer, running SDL 3.4.18, and yeah that's the version, that's the vibe, periodt 💜