destroy_font(3)

💖 destroy_font — bestie edition 💖

okay so this is a page from the Allegro manual, and we're talking about destroy_font(3) — the little cleanup queen of the Allegro game programming library ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

destroy_font — she frees the memory being used by a font structure 🫶 (part of the Allegro game programming library, iykyk)

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <allegro.h>

void destroy_font(FONT *f);

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So basically, destroy_font frees the memory being used by a font structure. That's it, that's the whole job, and she does it flawlessly 👑

🚨 NOT ME GIVING YOU A WARNING: do NOT use this on the default global Allegro font!! if you do, any text routines using it could crash 💀 like literally, catastrophic. leave the global font alone, she's booked and busy.

You should use this only on fonts you have loaded manually, and only after you are done with them — that's the move to prevent memory leaks in your program. clean up after yourself, bestie, it's giving responsible ✨

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• load_datafile_object(3)
• load_font(3)
• exfont(3)

Allegro · version 4.4.3 · mwah, that's the whole page 💖 tysm for reading, go free your fonts responsibly and stay iconic 👑🎀💅