PACKFILE(3alleg4)

💖 PACKFILE 💖

okay bestie, so this is the PACKFILE page from the Allegro manual, section 3alleg4 — yes it's a whole struct page, and yes it's gonna be short but iconic. it's part of the Allegro game programming library, periodt. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

PACKFILE — the packfile structure, lowkey the Allegro cousin of the libc FILE structure. Allegro game programming library, you know the vibe. 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <allegro.h>

typedef struct PACKFILE

like. that's it. that's the whole thing. she's simple, she's mysterious, she's opaque 💅

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

So PACKFILE is a packfile structure, and it's basically the same energy as the libc FILE structure. Same family, different font. ✨

If you wanna know how to actually obtain and use this structure, go read the chapter "File and compression routines" — that's where all the tea is. 📖

⚠️ IMPORTANT CAVEAT, NO CAP: prior to version 4.1.18, some internal fields were accidentally documented. Oopsie! 🙈 But listen — PACKFILE should be treated as an opaque structure, just like the libc FILE type. Don't go poking at her insides, she's not that kind of girl. Respect the opacity, bestie. 🫶

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• pack_fopen(3alleg4) — go open yourself a packfile
• pack_fopen_chunk(3alleg4) — chunk era
• pack_fopen_vtable(3alleg4) — vtable girlies rise up
• expackf(3alleg4) — and this one too, slay

and that's the whole page, you ate it up 💖

k bye, this was the Allegro manual, version 4.4.3 — mwah, take care of yourself and your opaque structs 💅🌸✨