al_fread16be(3alleg5)

💖 al_fread16be — Allegro 5 API 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the al_fread16be(3alleg5) page, part of the Allegro reference manual ✨ it's giving "tiny function, huge personality" and honestly? we're obsessed 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

al_fread16be — it's the Allegro 5 API, babe 💅 that's the whole vibe

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

lowkey the whole summoning ritual is just this:

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

int16_t al_fread16be(ALLEGRO_FILE *f)

no cap, that's it. copy it exactly, she's precise 👑

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so what does she do? she reads a 16-bit word in big-endian format, which means MSB first — most significant byte walking in the door first like she owns the place 💅✨

and the receipts:

• On success, she returns the 16-bit word. ate. 🔥
• On failure, she returns EOF (-1). 😭

💀 CAREFUL BESTIE — -1 is also a totally valid return value, so you literally cannot tell "we got -1 as data" from "something went wrong" just by looking at the return. Use al_feof(3alleg5) to check if the end of the file was reached prematurely, or al_ferror(3alleg5) to check if an error occurred. fr fr, do not skip this step, it's not a drill 🙈

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• al_fread16le(3alleg5) — the little-endian sister, go say hi 🌈

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and that's the page, bestie 🎀 al_fread16be(3alleg5), straight out of the Allegro reference manual — mwah, sending you a big 16-bit kiss, MSB first obviously 💖✨🦋🧚‍♀️