al_get_time(3alleg5)

💖 al_get_time 💖

okay bestie, so this one is literally the little clock gremlin of the Allegro 5 API 🕐✨ — it's al_get_time from the Allegro reference manual, and she is SO simple and SO useful. no cap.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

double al_get_time(void)

that's it. that's the whole thing. no args, no drama, just a double and a dream 🫶

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so like, al_get_time hands you back the number of seconds since the Allegro library got initialised. that's it, that's the tea 🍓

⚠️ okay but the important part, bestie: the return value is undefined if Allegro is uninitialised. like, undefined undefined. don't do that. init your library first, i am begging 😭

and the resolution? it depends on the driver being used. so like, it's giving whatever your driver feels like giving. but typically it can be in the order of microseconds 👑 — which is genuinely iconic, ngl, that's some serious precision for such a tiny function.

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💜 cute sign-off 💜

this lil masterpiece lives in the Allegro reference manual, filed under al_get_time(3alleg5). go off, timer function, you ate 💅🌈⭐