usprintf(3alleg4)

✨ usprintf ✨

okay bestie, so this is a page from the Allegro manual — section 3alleg4, the Allegro game programming library 💖 — and it's all about usprintf. let's get into it 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

usprintf — writes formatted data into a buffer. it's an Allegro game programming library thing, iykyk 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <allegro.h>

int usprintf(char *buf, const char *format, ...);

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this function writes formatted data into the output buffer. it also drops a NULL character in there to mark the end of the string, which is very cute of it ✨

but bestie, listen — you should try to avoid this function, because it is very easy to overflow the destination buffer 😭 like genuinely, one wrong move and your buffer is done for. use uszprintf instead. that's the one. periodt 💅

👑 RETURN VALUE 👑

it returns the number of characters written, not including the terminating null character. so like, the null doesn't count. it never counts. it's just there for vibes 🌈

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• uconvert(3alleg4)
• uszprintf(3alleg4)
• uvsprintf(3alleg4)
• exkeys(3alleg4)

that's the whole page fr fr 🎀 tysm for reading, mwah 💖 this was usprintf(3alleg4) from Allegro version 4.4.3 — slay, bye bestie 🦋✨