al_fread16be(3)

💅 al_fread16be — Allegro 5 API

Ok so bestie, welcome to the Library Functions Manual ✨ this one's a tiny little function from Allegro 5 and honestly it's giving "small but mighty" 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

al_fread16be — the Allegro 5 API girlie who reads 16 bits, big-endian style 👑

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

int16_t al_fread16be(ALLEGRO_FILE *f)

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So what she does is read a 16-bit word in big-endian format, aka MSB first 💅 like, most-significant byte walks in first, no cap 🚶‍♀️✨

On success? She returns the 16-bit word, periodt 🎉 On failure? She returns EOF, which is -1 😭

🚨 And here's the plot twist bestie — -1 is also a totally valid return value 🙈 so you literally cannot tell from the return alone. Use al_feof(3) to check if the end of the file was reached prematurely, or al_ferror(3) to check if an error occurred. Do not skip this step, iykyk 💀

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• al_fread16le(3) — her little-endian sister, go show her some love too 🫶

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✨ that's the whole page bestie, go read some big-endian words ✨

Later, icons — this was the Allegro reference manual 🎀💜