END_OF_MAIN(3alleg4)

💖 NAME 💖

END_OF_MAIN — the macro you put after your main() function, bestie. It's part of the Allegro game programming library. ✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <allegro.h>

Macro END_OF_MAIN()

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so listen. For cross-platform compatibility — like, the whole reason this thing exists — you have to put this macro at the very, very end of your main function. Like, after the closing brace. Not inside. After. 💅

This macro does some lowkey magic'</purple> to mangle your main` procedure on the platforms that need it, and the ones that need it are: Windows, some flavours of UNIX, and MacOS X. They're the ones being extra about it. 🙈

But on the other platforms? It literally compiles to nothing. Zero. Zilch. So you do not have to #ifdef around it — no cap, just drop it in and forget about it. That's the whole vibe. 🫶

Example, because a visual helps:

int main(void)
{
   allegro_init();
   /* more stuff goes here */
   ...
   return 0;
}
END_OF_MAIN()

See how it's just chilling after the }? That's the assignment. Main character macro behavior honestly. 👑

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

Allegro — the whole library, the moment, the icon. 🌈

okay that's the whole page, you're literally done 💜 huge thanks to the Allegro girlies for this one — this is Allegro version 4.4.3 and the page is END_OF_MAIN(3alleg4), slay, go write some cross-platform game code bestie 🎀✨