SDL_GPUComputePass(3type)

✨ SDL_GPUComputePass ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the SDL3 DATATYPES corner of the manual, where we talk about SDL_GPUComputePass 💖 it's an opaque handle representing a compute pass. that's the whole vibe. iykyk.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

SDL_GPUComputePass — an opaque handle representing a compute pass. literally just a lil handle. no cap.

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <SDL3/SDL_gpu.h>

typedef struct SDL_GPUComputePass SDL_GPUComputePass;

that's it. that's the whole thing. she's opaque, she's mysterious, she's giving main character energy 🦋

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so here's the tea, and it's important tea: this handle is transient. like, transient transient. the way that you should not hold it, and not reference it, once SDL_EndGPUComputePass has been called. 🫶

⚠️ bestie please. after SDL_EndGPUComputePass runs, that handle is gone gone. don't keep it, don't stash it, don't text it back. referencing it after that point is not the move. 💀

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🌈 AVAILABILITY 🌈

this struct has been available since SDL 3.2.0. iconic behavior honestly. 👑

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• SDL_BeginGPUComputePass(3) — the one that starts the whole thing
• SDL_EndGPUComputePass(3) — the one that ends it (and the one that makes the handle off-limits, remember? 🙈)

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Simple Directmedia Layer • SDL 3.4.18 • SDL_GPUComputePass(3type)

and that's the page, bestie 💜 go forth and compute, but like… responsibly. periodt. ✨🎀