PACKFILE(3)

📦 version 4.4.3.1, in fedora 43, fedora 44

💖 PACKFILE(3) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Allegro manual, and today's main character is PACKFILE — no cap, she's the packfile structure, and she's giving libc FILE but make it Allegro. Part of the Allegro game programming library, obviously. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <allegro.h>

typedef struct PACKFILE

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So. A PACKFILE is a packfile structure, and it's similar to the libc FILE structure — like, same energy, different universe. 🦋

Wanna know how to actually get one of these and use it? Go read the chapter "File and compression routines" — that's where the whole how-to lives, iykyk. 📖✨

⚠️ important lore drop, don't skip this one: prior to version 4.1.18, some internal fields were accidentally documented. Oopsie. 🙈 But here's the thing — PACKFILE should be treated as an opaque structure, just like the libc FILE type. Do not go poking at her internals, bestie, she's not that kind of girl. Periodt. 💀

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

and that's the whole page, gorgeous! 🫶 this lil legend came straight out of Allegro, version 4.4.3, and it's filed under PACKFILE(3) — go forth and treat her as opaque, mwah 💖✨🎀

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