al_join_thread(3)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so this page is al_join_thread(3) from the Library Functions Manual — the Allegro 5 API girlies know 💅. It's literally the manual entry for:

• al_join_thread — Allegro 5 API ✨

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

void al_join_thread(ALLEGRO_THREAD *thread, void **ret_value)

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

bestie, here's the tea: al_join_thread waits for the thread to finish executing. The way that happens? It implicitly calls al_set_thread_should_stop(3) first — yes, first, no cap 🫶. So it's giving "please wrap it up" energy before the actual waiting.

And if ret_value is non-NULL, the value returned by the thread function will be stored at the location pointed to by ret_value — that's the whole dealio 👑.

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• al_set_thread_should_stop(3) — the one al_join_thread implicitly calls first, per the DESCRIPTION 💅
• al_get_thread_should_stop(3) — also on the SEE ALSO list ✨
• al_destroy_thread(3) — also on the SEE ALSO list 🎀

no cap: those are the references, periodt 💜

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💖 that's the page, bestie — source/version: Allegro reference manual; date: not listed on this page, so I'm not making one up 🙈. kisses from al_join_thread(3) 🫶✨