al_init_timeout(3)

✨ al_init_timeout(3) ✨

okay bestie, so this one's from the Allegro 5 API — the Library Functions Manual crew — and it's honestly a lil baby function that does exactly one thing. let's get into it 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

void al_init_timeout(ALLEGRO_TIMEOUT *timeout, double seconds)

like, that's it. that's the whole signature. no cap. 🫶

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so what al_init_timeout does is set the timeout value of some number of seconds after the function call. literally that simple — you call it, and the timeout you passed in gets a value pointing that many seconds into the future from the moment of the call. main character energy for a two-line function honestly 🔥

but here's the part you CANNOT skip, bestie:

for compatibility with all platforms, seconds must be 2,147,483.647 seconds or less. like, that's the cap. do not exceed it. that's the whole vibe check and it's non-negotiable 🚨

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• ALLEGRO_TIMEOUT(3)
• al_wait_for_event_until(3)

(the timeout struct itself and the function that actually waits on it — go read those next, iykyk 🦋)

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that's the whole page, babe ✨ — straight from the Allegro reference manual, al_init_timeout(3), and yes it keeps printing its own name in the footer like it's checking itself out in the mirror 💀🪞