pack_mputl(3)

💖 pack_mputl(3) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Allegro manual page for pack_mputl — she's a little function from the Allegro game programming library and she is, and I say this with my whole chest, so specific about her bytes. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

pack_mputl — it's literally like pack_putc(), except it writes 32-bit Motorola byte ordering words instead. Allegro game programming library energy only, no cap. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <allegro.h>

long pack_mputl(long c, PACKFILE *f);

like... that's the whole vibe. one include, one function, one long going in, one long coming back out. 🦋

🧚 DESCRIPTION 🧚

okay so listen. she's pack_putc's cousin, right, but instead of doing the single-byte thing, pack_mputl writes a 32-bit long into a file — and the way she does it is Motorola byte ordering, which is also known as most significant byte first, a.k.a. big-endian. ✨

so the biggest, most important byte goes out the door first, like the main character she is, and then the rest follow. it's giving "I have a byte order and I'm committed to it." 👑

ngl this matters SO much if you're reading these files back on a machine that expects a different ordering — the bytes are going out big-endian no matter what your CPU thinks. periodt. 🔥

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

• pack_putc(3) — her sibling, the one-byte version, go say hi 💖

that's the whole page bestie, short and sweet and byte-perfect 🌈

signing off from Allegro version 4.4.3 — mwah, love u, go write some big-endian longs 💜💅🌟