al_create_mutex(3alleg5)

✨ al_create_mutex — Allegro 5 API ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the al_create_mutex(3alleg5) page 💅 this one lives in the Allegro reference manual and it's lowkey iconic, let's get into it 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

ALLEGRO_MUTEX *al_create_mutex(void)

like, that's the whole vibe. one function, zero arguments, go off 👑

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So. You wanna create the mutex object — which is, and I quote, a mutual exclusion device 🎀 it's literally the thing that keeps your threads from stepping on each other's toes, no cap.

Now here's the tea ☕ — the mutex may or may not support "recursive" locking. Not a guarantee, bestie, it's giving "depends on the platform" energy 🙈 so don't assume, okay?

Returns the mutex on success or NULL on error. That's it. That's the deal. If you get NULL back, something went wrong and you should absolutely not be out here dereferencing it 😭

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• al_create_mutex_recursive(3alleg5) — the one that definitely does the recursive thing 💜 go read it, iykyk

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that's the whole page, you ate it fr fr 🌈

mwah 💋 this was al_create_mutex(3alleg5) from the Allegro reference manual, and yeah, the footer says al_create_mutex(3alleg5) too — same girl, same page, periodt 👑✨🦋