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

SDL_GetThreadName

Get the thread name as it was specified in SDL_CreateThread().

Header File

Defined in SDL_thread.h

Syntax

const char* SDL_GetThreadName(SDL_Thread *thread);

Function Parameters

Return Value

Returns a pointer to a UTF-8 string that names the specified thread, or NULL if it doesn't have a name.

Remarks

This is internal memory, not to be freed by the caller, and remains valid until the specified thread is cleaned up by SDL_WaitThread().

Version

This function is available since SDL 2.0.0.

See Also

• SDL_CreateThread

CategoryAPI, CategoryAPIFunction, CategoryThread