al_ref_info(3)

✨ al_ref_info(3) ✨

okay bestie, gather round, because we're talking about the Allegro 5 API and honestly this one is a little cutie 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

const ALLEGRO_USTR *al_ref_info(const ALLEGRO_USTR_INFO *info)

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So basically, al_ref_info makes you a read-only string that references the storage of another ALLEGRO_USTR(3) string — one that's already been tucked away inside the ALLEGRO_USTR_INFO(3) structure. It's giving "I'm not copying you, I'm just pointing at you" energy 🫶 no cap, no extra allocation, just vibes and a pointer.

✨ Heads up though: the string is only valid until the underlying string gets modified or destroyed. After that? It's giving expired story 😭 so don't be caught holding onto it.

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🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

• al_ref_cstr(3)
• al_ref_buffer(3)
• al_ref_ustr(3)

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that's the whole page, bestie — short, sweet, and iconic 👑

this lil beauty comes to you from the Allegro reference manual, dated with its very own al_ref_info(3) footer — slay 💖✨