(This is the legacy documentation for stable SDL2, the current stable version; SDL3 is the current development version.)

SDL_GetErrorMsg

Get the last error message that was set for the current thread.

Header File

Defined in SDL_error.h

Syntax

char * SDL_GetErrorMsg(char *errstr, int maxlen);

Function Parameters

errstr A buffer to fill with the last error message that was set for the current thread
maxlen The size of the buffer pointed to by the errstr parameter

Return Value

Returns the pointer passed in as the errstr parameter.

Remarks

This allows the caller to copy the error string into a provided buffer, but otherwise operates exactly the same as SDL_GetError().

Version

This function is available since SDL 2.0.14.

See Also

CategoryAPI, CategoryAPIFunction, CategoryError