SDL_SCANF_FORMAT_STRING(3)

💖 SDL_SCANF_FORMAT_STRING 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the SDL3 FUNCTIONS section of the manual, we're doing SDL_SCANF_FORMAT_STRING(3) today and it's honestly such a small slay 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

SDL_SCANF_FORMAT_STRING — the macro that annotates function params as scanf-style format strings. that's it, that's the whole job 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <SDL3/SDL_stdinc.h>

#define SDL_SCANF_FORMAT_STRING _Scanf_format_string_impl_

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so picture this: you wanna annotate fscanf. like, hypothetically. here's what that would look like:

int fscanf(FILE *f, SDL_SCANF_FORMAT_STRING const char *fmt, ...);

see how fmt is wearing the SDL_SCANF_FORMAT_STRING fit? that's the whole point. it notes that fmt should be a scanf-style format string. and then the compiler — or whatever other analysis tools you've got lurking in your build pipeline 👀 — can warn you when it doesn't actually appear to be the case. vibe check on your format string, basically. 🔥

and if you're on compilers that just don't have this annotation mechanism? no worries bestie, on those this is defined to nothing. literally nothing. it just vanishes. iconically low-maintenance. 💀

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⭐ AVAILABILITY ⭐

this macro is available since SDL 3.2.0. so if you're on something older, sorry babes, upgrade time 🫶

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quick reminder: this is an annotation macro, not a function — it does absolutely nothing at runtime, it's just there to help your tools help you. periodt. 💖

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and that's the page!! 🌈 this little beauty comes to you from the fine folks at Simple Directmedia Layer, and it's from SDL 3.4.18 — manual page SDL_SCANF_FORMAT_STRING(3), signing off 🎀✨ byeee 🦋