(This is the documentation for SDL3, which is under heavy development and the API is changing! SDL2 is the current stable version!)

SDL_GetThreadName

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

Header File

Defined in <SDL3/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 3.0.0.

CategoryAPI, CategoryAPIFunction, CategoryThread