al_merge_config_into(3alleg5)

✨ NAME ✨

al_merge_config_into — it's giving Allegro 5 API, bestie 💖 (this is a page from the allegro5 manual, al_merge_config_into(3alleg5), and yes we're doing the whole thing together)

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

okay so first you gotta pull in the header, like always:

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

and then the actual star of the show:

void al_merge_config_into(ALLEGRO_CONFIG *master, const ALLEGRO_CONFIG *add)

look at her. void, no return value, she just does the thing. 👑

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so picture this: you have two config structures and you want one of them to just, like, absorb the other one. that's the whole vibe. al_merge_config_into merges one configuration structure into another one. iconic behavior fr fr ✨

here's the tea though — add is the one with main character energy. any values in add override the ones in master. so if they disagree, add wins, no debate, periodt 💅

and heads up bestie, master gets modified in place. like, it's not a copy, it's not a new structure, she is changed. so don't be out here expecting your original master to be untouched, because she is not 🙈

one more thing — comments from add are not retained. the comments don't make it through the merge, so if you were attached to them... 😭 yeah. gone. not invited to the afterparty.

lowkey important: master is modified, add overrides it, and comments from add do NOT survive. three facts, memorize them, vibe check passed ✅

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• al_merge_config(3alleg5) — her sister, go say hi 🫶

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and that's the whole page babes!! this was the Allegro reference manual, page al_merge_config_into(3alleg5) — mwah, slay, go merge some configs responsibly 💖🎀🦋