agb/book/src/pong/02_the_gba_struct.md

# The Gba struct

In this section, we'll cover the importance of the Gba struct and how it gets created for you.

# The importance of the Gba struct

Almost all interaction with the Game Boy Advance's hardware goes through the [Gba singleton struct](https://docs.rs/agb/latest/agb/struct.Gba.html).
You should not create the Gba struct yourself, instead having it be passed into your main function.

The Gba struct is used to take advantage of rust's borrow checker, and lean on it to ensure that access to the Game Boy Advance hardware is done 'sensibly'.
You won't have to worry about 2 bits of your code modifying data in the wrong way!

# How all agb games start

Replace the content of the `main` function with the following:

```rust,ignore
# #![no_std]
# #![no_main]
# #[agb::entry]
# fn main(mut _gba: Gba) -> ! {
loop {} // infinite loop for now
# }
```

and ignore warnings for now.

# Running your pong game

Although there isn't much to see at the moment (just a black screen), you can start the game by using `cargo run` or whatever worked for you in the introduction.

# What we did

This was a very simple but incredibly important part of any game using `agb`.
All interactions with the hardware are gated via the Gba struct, which you never create yourself.

You are now ready to learn about display modes and how to start getting things onto the screen!