al_fwrite16le(3alleg5)

💾 al_fwrite16le — Allegro 5 API 🎀

okay bestie, so this one lives in the Allegro 5 manual — you already know the vibe, it's page al_fwrite16le(3alleg5) and it's giving ✨tiny little byte-pusher✨ energy. Let's get into it.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

size_t al_fwrite16le(ALLEGRO_FILE *f, int16_t w)

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So basically, al_fwrite16le() writes a 16-bit word out to a file in little-endian format — that means LSB first (least significant byte goes out the door first, she's an eager queen 👑).

And then she tells you how it went: the return value is the number of bytes written. So like:

• 2 on success — slay, both bytes made it 💖
• less than 2 on an error — not slay, something went sideways 😭

That's it, that's the whole function. Small, iconic, does exactly one job, periodt.

ngl this is the kind of function that lowkey saves you when you're hand-rolling a binary file format and endianness is trying to ruin your whole life. iykyk 🦋

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🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

• al_fwrite16be(3alleg5) — her big-endian sister, same energy, opposite order 🧚

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Allegro reference manual • al_fwrite16le(3alleg5) — mwah, that's the whole page bestie, go write some bytes 🫶💜🌈