al_run_detached_thread(3)

okay so bestie, welcome to al_run_detached_thread(3) — this is the Library Functions Manual page for the Allegro 5 API, and it’s a whole little vibe. ✨

🎀 NAME 🎀

al_run_detached_thread — Allegro 5 API 🦋

📜 SYNOPSIS 📜

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

void al_run_detached_thread(void *(*proc)(void *arg), void *arg)

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Okay so here’s the tea: al_run_detached_thread runs the function you pass in — that’s proc — in its own thread, and it passes arg to it as the only parameter. Literally the one and only parameter, periodt. 🫶

This is similar to calling al_create_thread(3), al_start_thread(3) and, after the thread has finished, al_destroy_thread(3) — but there’s a big catch: you don’t have the possibility of ever calling al_join_thread(3) on the thread. Not once. Not ever. 🙈

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💖 from the Allegro reference manual, repping al_run_detached_thread(3) — no date in the original footer, so I’m not making one up; that’s the sign-off, bestie 🫶