al_create_thread(3alleg5)

💖 al_create_thread 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Allegro 5 API corner of the Allegro reference manual — this is the one that gets you a whole entire new thread, no cap 🧵✨

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

ALLEGRO_THREAD *al_create_thread(
   void *(*proc)(ALLEGRO_THREAD *thread, void *arg), void *arg)

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So basically? You're spawning a brand new thread 🌱 and that fresh little thread starts out by executing proc. That's it, that's the whole vibe.

And the way it works is so cute — the new thread gets handed its own thread handle plus the value arg, so it knows exactly who it is and what it's working with 🫶

If everything goes right, you get back a pointer to the thread. slay. ✨

But if something goes sideways, you get NULL instead — that's the error signal, so if you see NULL, that's your cue that it did not work out 😭 no thread for you that time, bestie.

lowkey important: check for that NULL!! a returned pointer means success, NULL means there was an error. periodt. 💀

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• al_start_thread(3alleg5) — go wake that thread up ⭐
• al_join_thread(3alleg5) — and then wait for it, patiently, like a good friend 🌸

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and that's the whole page, gorgeous 💜 mwah. this one lives in the Allegro reference manual (you already knew that tho), so go forth, spawn your threads, and remember: check your return values, hydrate, and don't block the main thread 🎀🦋💖