al_broadcast_cond(3)

al_broadcast_cond(3) 💅

okay so this page is from the Library Functions Manual, and it's giving “tiny but important Allegro function” energy. bestie, let's get into it 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

al_broadcast_cond — Allegro 5 API ✨

⭐ SYNOPSIS ⭐

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

void al_broadcast_cond(ALLEGRO_COND *cond)

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

okay so picture this: a bunch of threads are all waiting on a condition variable, like they're sitting in the group chat waiting for the “it's happening” text 💬. al_broadcast_cond unblocks all threads currently waiting on that condition variable. every single one of them. slay.

that's the broadcast, fr fr: it says that some condition those threads were waiting for has become true. the way that it just lets everybody know? iconic. no cap, that's the whole vibe of the function 💖

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

• al_signal_cond(3) — the related signal function, iykyk 👑

Note: The pthreads spec says to lock the mutex associated with cond before signalling for predictable scheduling behaviour.

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later, bestie 🫶 — source/version situation: this is from the Allegro reference manual, all about al_broadcast_cond(3), and the page footer didn't give a date, so I'm not inventing one 💀✨