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.TH SDL_RWclose 3 "SDL 3.0.0" "SDL" "SDL3 FUNCTIONS"
.SH NAME
SDL_RWclose \- Close and free an allocated 
.BR SDL_RWops
 structure\[char46]
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B #include \(dqSDL3/SDL.h\(dq
.PP
.BI "int SDL_RWclose(SDL_RWops *context);
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION

.BR SDL_RWclose
() closes and cleans up the

.BR SDL_RWops
 stream\[char46] It releases any resources used by the stream
and frees the 
.BR SDL_RWops
 itself with

.BR SDL_DestroyRW
()\[char46] This returns 0 on success, or -1 if the
stream failed to flush to its output (e\[char46]g\[char46] to disk)\[char46]

Note that if this fails to flush the stream to disk, this function reports
an error, but the 
.BR SDL_RWops
 is still invalid once this
function returns\[char46]

.SH FUNCTION PARAMETERS
.TP
.I context

.BR SDL_RWops
 structure to close
.SH RETURN VALUE
Returns 0 on success or a negative error code on failure; call

.BR SDL_GetError
() for more information\[char46]

.SH AVAILABILITY
This function is available since SDL 3\[char46]0\[char46]0\[char46]

.SH SEE ALSO
.BR SDL_RWFromConstMem (3),
.BR SDL_RWFromFile (3),
.BR SDL_RWFromMem (3),
.BR SDL_RWread (3),
.BR SDL_RWseek (3),
.BR SDL_RWwrite (3)