SDL_GetCurrentThreadID(3)

SDL_GetCurrentThreadID3

Get the thread identifier for the current thread.

Usage

#include "SDL3/SDL.h"

SDL_ThreadID SDL_GetCurrentThreadID(void);

Header file

Defined in SDL3/SDL_thread.h

Overview

This thread identifier is as reported by the underlying operating system. If SDL is running on a platform that does not support threads the return value will always be zero.

This function also returns a valid thread ID when called from the main thread.

Return value

( SDL_ThreadID ) Returns the ID of the current thread.

Availability

This function is available since SDL 3.2.0.

From libsdl3-doc 3.2.10+ds-1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.