al_fixtof(3alleg5)

✨ al_fixtof ✨

okay bestie, welcome to al_fixtof from the Allegro 5 API — she's short, she's sweet, she's literally just doing a little math glow-up 💅 this is section 3 of the Allegro 5 manual, so you know she's a library function, not a command. no cap.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

double al_fixtof(al_fixed x);

that's it. that's the whole entrance. al_fixed goes in, a double comes out, main character energy fr fr 🫶

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so what does she DO? she converts fixed point to floating point. that's the whole vibe. you hand her a fixed-point number, she hands you back a floating-point number and you can go be free and do your little decimals 🦋

Example (copy this exactly, it's iconic):

float result;

/* This will put 33.33333 into `result'. */
result = al_fixtof(al_itofix(100) / 3);

/* This will put 16.66666 into `result'. */
result = al_fixtof(al_itofix(100) / 6);

see how she's playing nice with al_itofix in there? that's teamwork. that's the group chat working together 😭✨

ngl, peep the comment style — those backtick-quotes around result are the original's, and we're keeping them, periodt.

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• al_ftofix(3alleg5)
• al_itofix(3alleg5)
• al_fixtoi(3alleg5)

go read those too, they're her besties and they all do the fixed-point-to-something-else dance 🎀

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🌈 no cap, no filler, just a tiny little conversion function living her truth. this came from the Allegro reference manual, and the page itself is signed al_fixtof(3alleg5) — so if you ever see that tag floating around, that's just her name tag at the function party 💜 mwah, go convert something. 🍓🧚