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75 >SDL_SemValue</H1
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82 >Name</H2
83 >SDL_SemValue&nbsp;--&nbsp;Return the current value of a semaphore.</DIV
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100 >#include "SDL.h"
101 #include "SDL/SDL_thread.h"</PRE
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106 >Uint32 <B
107 CLASS="FSFUNC"
108 >SDL_SemValue</B
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110 >(SDL_sem *sem);</CODE
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122 >Description</H2
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124 ><TT
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126 >SDL_SemValue()</TT
127 > returns the current semaphore value from
128 the semaphore pointed to by <TT
129 CLASS="PARAMETER"
130 ><I
131 >sem</I
132 ></TT
133 >.</P
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141 >Return Value</H2
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143 >Returns current value of the semaphore.</P
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155 >  sem_value = SDL_SemValue(my_sem);</PRE
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167 HREF="sdlcreatesemaphore.html"
168 ><TT
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170 >SDL_CreateSemaphore</TT
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175 ><TT
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177 >SDL_DestroySemaphore</TT
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184 >SDL_SemWait</TT
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189 ><TT
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191 >SDL_SemTryWait</TT
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