al_destroy_shader(3alleg5)

💖 al_destroy_shader 💖

okay bestie, so this one lives in the Allegro reference manual (that's the manual name, iykyk) and it's literally just about saying bye to a shader 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

al_destroy_shader — the Allegro 5 API function that yeets a shader into the void 💀✨

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

void al_destroy_shader(ALLEGRO_SHADER *shader)

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So like, this function destroys a shader. Periodt. 💅

Any bitmaps which currently use the shader will implicitly stop using the shader. The way that they just quietly move on... iconic. ✨

⚠️ okay so in multi-threaded programs, be careful that no such bitmaps are being accessed by other threads at the time. no cap, this is the important part, do not skip it 🚨

As a convenience, if the target bitmap of the calling thread is using the shader, then the shader is implicitly unused before being destroyed. cute little built-in kindness, we love to see it 🎀

Also! This function does nothing if the shader argument is NULL. lowkey the most chill function in the whole library, it just shrugs and moves on 🙈

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⭐ SINCE ⭐

5.1.0 — been here since the olden days bestie, she's a veteran 👑

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• al_create_shader(3alleg5) — the origin story, the main character that makes this whole thing possible 💖

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and that's the vibe check, bestie! 🧚 this was pulled straight from the Allegro reference manual, page al_destroy_shader(3alleg5) — go forth and destroy responsibly, slay 💅🌸✨