fixed(3alleg4)

✨ fixed(3alleg4) ✨

okay bestie, we're in the Allegro manual and today's topic is literally just... a type. a whole little guy. his name is fixed and he's about to change your whole math game 💖

🎀 NAME 🎀

fixed — fixed point integer to replace floats. Allegro game programming library.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <allegro.h>

typedef long fixed

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so, fixed is a fixed point integer ✨ it can replace float and give you super similar results, but here's the tea: on low end machines it's faster than float 🔥 no cap.

if you want the whole deep dive, go read the chapter "Fixed point math routines" — that's where the full explanation lives, iykyk 📖

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

• ex12bit(3alleg4)
• ex3buf(3alleg4)
• ex3d(3alleg4)
• excustom(3alleg4)
• exfixed(3alleg4)
• exrotscl(3alleg4)
• exspline(3alleg4)
• exsprite(3alleg4)
• exstars(3alleg4)
• exupdate(3alleg4)

ngl the original list literally opens with a stray comma before ex12bit(3alleg4) — main character typo energy, we keep it real 💀

and that's the whole page, periodt 🫶 this was Allegro version 4.4.3, fixed(3alleg4), dated like the icon it is — stay fixed, bestie, and go make something gorgeous 💜✨