SDL_STRINGIFY_ARG(3)

πŸ’… SDL_STRINGIFY_ARG(3) β€” SDL3 FUNCTIONS ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the most lowkey iconic macro in the whole SDL3 lineup 🌸 this one lives in the SDL3 FUNCTIONS section and it's literally just a vibe: it takes stuff and turns it into a string. that's it. that's the whole job. and yet?? it's so useful. periodt.


πŸŽ€ NAME πŸŽ€

SDL_STRINGIFY_ARG β€” a macro that's useful for building other macros with strings in them πŸ’–

like, macro-ception. macros that make macros. iykyk πŸ¦‹


✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <SDL3/SDL_stdinc.h>

#define SDL_STRINGIFY_ARG(arg)  #arg

that one little # in front of arg?? that's the whole magic trick, bestie. no cap, that's the entire spell πŸ”₯


🫢 MACRO PARAMETERS 🫢

  • arg β€” the text to turn into a string literal. literally just hand it some text and it'll wrap it up all cute as a string πŸ’…

πŸ‘‘ AVAILABILITY πŸ‘‘

this macro is available since SDL 3.2.0. so if you're on anything older, sorry babe, you gotta upgrade 😭


no warnings, no gotchas, no deprecated drama on this one β€” it's giving wholesome, unproblematic, main-character macro energy 🌈

and that's the whole page, bestie, you ate it πŸ“ go stringify something and feel iconic. this little writeup came to you from Simple Directmedia Layer, version SDL 3.4.18 β€” mwah, talk later πŸ’–βœ¨πŸŽ€

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