First shot at merging the wiki documentation into the headers.

include/SDL_assert.h

@@ -193,88 +193,119 @@ typedef SDL_AssertState (SDLCALL *SDL_AssertionHandler)(
                                  const SDL_AssertData* data, void* userdata);
 
 /**
- *  \brief Set an application-defined assertion handler.
+ * Set an application-defined assertion handler.
  *
- *  This allows an app to show its own assertion UI and/or force the
- *  response to an assertion failure. If the app doesn't provide this, SDL
- *  will try to do the right thing, popping up a system-specific GUI dialog,
- *  and probably minimizing any fullscreen windows.
+ * This function allows an application to show its own assertion UI and/or
+ * force the response to an assertion failure. If the application doesn't
+ * provide this, SDL will try to do the right thing, popping up a
+ * system-specific GUI dialog, and probably minimizing any fullscreen windows.
  *
- *  This callback may fire from any thread, but it runs wrapped in a mutex, so
- *  it will only fire from one thread at a time.
+ * The function prototype for `handler` is:
  *
- *  Setting the callback to NULL restores SDL's original internal handler.
+ * ```c
+ * SDL_AssertState YourAssertionHandler(const SDL_AssertData* data, void* userdata)
+ * ```
  *
- *  This callback is NOT reset to SDL's internal handler upon SDL_Quit()!
+ * where `YourAssertionHandler` is the name of your function and its
+ * parameters are:
  *
- *  Return SDL_AssertState value of how to handle the assertion failure.
+ * - `data`: a pointer to the SDL_AssertData structure corresponding to the
+ *   current assertion
+ * - `userdata`: what was passed as `userdata` to SDL_SetAssertionHandler()
  *
- *  \param handler Callback function, called when an assertion fails.
- *  \param userdata A pointer passed to the callback as-is.
+ * This callback should return an SDL_AssertState value indicating how to
+ * handle the assertion failure.
+ *
+ * This callback may fire from any thread, but it runs wrapped in a mutex, so
+ * it will only fire from one thread at a time.
+ *
+ * This callback is NOT reset to SDL's internal handler upon SDL_Quit()!
+ *
+ * \param handler the function to call when an assertion fails or NULL for the
+ *                default handler
+ * \param userdata a pointer that is passed to `handler`
+ *
+ * \sa SDL_GetAssertionHandler
  */
 extern DECLSPEC void SDLCALL SDL_SetAssertionHandler(
                                             SDL_AssertionHandler handler,
                                             void *userdata);
 
 /**
- *  \brief Get the default assertion handler.
+ * Get the default assertion handler.
  *
- *  This returns the function pointer that is called by default when an
- *   assertion is triggered. This is an internal function provided by SDL,
- *   that is used for assertions when SDL_SetAssertionHandler() hasn't been
- *   used to provide a different function.
+ * This returns the function pointer that is called by default when an
+ * assertion is triggered. This is an internal function provided by SDL, that
+ * is used for assertions when SDL_SetAssertionHandler() hasn't been used to
+ * provide a different function.
  *
- *  \return The default SDL_AssertionHandler that is called when an assert triggers.
+ * \returns the default SDL_AssertionHandler that is called when an assert
+ *          triggers.
+ *
+ * \since This function is available since SDL 2.0.2.
+ *
+ * \sa SDL_GetAssertionHandler
  */
 extern DECLSPEC SDL_AssertionHandler SDLCALL SDL_GetDefaultAssertionHandler(void);
 
 /**
- *  \brief Get the current assertion handler.
+ * Get the current assertion handler.
  *
- *  This returns the function pointer that is called when an assertion is
- *   triggered. This is either the value last passed to
- *   SDL_SetAssertionHandler(), or if no application-specified function is
- *   set, is equivalent to calling SDL_GetDefaultAssertionHandler().
+ * This returns the function pointer that is called when an assertion is
+ * triggered. This is either the value last passed to
+ * SDL_SetAssertionHandler(), or if no application-specified function is set,
+ * is equivalent to calling SDL_GetDefaultAssertionHandler().
  *
- *   \param puserdata Pointer to a void*, which will store the "userdata"
- *                    pointer that was passed to SDL_SetAssertionHandler().
- *                    This value will always be NULL for the default handler.
- *                    If you don't care about this data, it is safe to pass
- *                    a NULL pointer to this function to ignore it.
- *  \return The SDL_AssertionHandler that is called when an assert triggers.
+ * The parameter `puserdata` is a pointer to a void*, which will store the
+ * "userdata" pointer that was passed to SDL_SetAssertionHandler(). This value
+ * will always be NULL for the default handler. If you don't care about this
+ * data, it is safe to pass a NULL pointer to this function to ignore it.
+ *
+ * \param puserdata pointer which is filled with the "userdata" pointer that
+ *                  was passed to SDL_SetAssertionHandler()
+ * \returns the SDL_AssertionHandler that is called when an assert triggers.
+ *
+ * \since This function is available since SDL 2.0.2.
+ *
+ * \sa SDL_SetAssertionHandler
  */
 extern DECLSPEC SDL_AssertionHandler SDLCALL SDL_GetAssertionHandler(void **puserdata);
 
 /**
- *  \brief Get a list of all assertion failures.
+ * Get a list of all assertion failures.
  *
- *  Get all assertions triggered since last call to SDL_ResetAssertionReport(),
- *  or the start of the program.
+ * This function gets all assertions triggered since the last call to
+ * SDL_ResetAssertionReport(), or the start of the program.
  *
- *  The proper way to examine this data looks something like this:
+ * The proper way to examine this data looks something like this:
  *
- *  <code>
- *  const SDL_AssertData *item = SDL_GetAssertionReport();
- *  while (item) {
- *      printf("'%s', %s (%s:%d), triggered %u times, always ignore: %s.\\n",
- *             item->condition, item->function, item->filename,
- *             item->linenum, item->trigger_count,
- *             item->always_ignore ? "yes" : "no");
- *      item = item->next;
- *  }
- *  </code>
+ * ```c
+ * const SDL_AssertData *item = SDL_GetAssertionReport();
+ * while (item) {
+ *    printf("'%s', %s (%s:%d), triggered %u times, always ignore: %s.\\n",
+ *           item->condition, item->function, item->filename,
+ *           item->linenum, item->trigger_count,
+ *           item->always_ignore ? "yes" : "no");
+ *    item = item->next;
+ * }
+ * ```
  *
- *  \return List of all assertions.
- *  \sa SDL_ResetAssertionReport
+ * \returns a list of all failed assertions or NULL if the list is empty. This
+ *          memory should not be modified or freed by the application.
+ *
+ * \sa SDL_ResetAssertionReport
  */
 extern DECLSPEC const SDL_AssertData * SDLCALL SDL_GetAssertionReport(void);
 
 /**
- *  \brief Reset the list of all assertion failures.
+ * Clear the list of all assertion failures.
  *
- *  Reset list of all assertions triggered.
+ * This function will clear the list of all assertions triggered up to that
+ * point. Immediately following this call, SDL_GetAssertionReport will return
+ * no items. In addition, any previously-triggered assertions will be reset to
+ * a trigger_count of zero, and their always_ignore state will be false.
  *
- *  \sa SDL_GetAssertionReport
+ * \sa SDL_GetAssertionReport
  */
 extern DECLSPEC void SDLCALL SDL_ResetAssertionReport(void);