al_add_timer_count(3alleg5)

✨ al_add_timer_count ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the Allegro 5 API manual page for al_add_timer_count — yes that's the function, yes it's giving main character energy, and yes we're gonna get you fluent in it in like ninety seconds 💖

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🌸 NAME 🌸

al_add_timer_count — literally what it says on the tin, but make it Allegro 5 API 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

void al_add_timer_count(ALLEGRO_TIMER *timer, int64_t diff)

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So here's the tea: al_add_timer_count adds diff to the timer's counter value. That's it. That's the whole vibe. 🌈

If you were gonna do it the long way, it would look exactly like this:

al_set_timer_count(timer, al_get_timer_count(timer) + diff);

...except — and this is the part where it gets iconic — the addition happens atomically, so no ticks will be lost. periodt. 💀✨

ngl if you do the read-then-write version above by hand in a threaded situation, a tick can slip through the cracks between the get and the set. this function said "not on my watch" 🫶

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• al_set_timer_count(3alleg5) — the sibling, the co-star, the other half of the duo 💜

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that's the whole page bestie, go forth and count those ticks 🧚🌸

mwah 💋 — this has been your girl, signing off from the Allegro reference manual, al_add_timer_count(3alleg5), and yes the header says the same thing twice, that's just how manpages are, we don't question it 🎀