al_ref_buffer(3alleg5)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, this is the page for al_ref_buffer — and it's part of the Allegro 5 API. The manual page vibe is al_ref_buffer(3alleg5), and she's here to help you reference buffer storage like the icon she is. 💖

📦 SYNOPSIS 📦

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

const ALLEGRO_USTR *al_ref_buffer(ALLEGRO_USTR_INFO *info, const char *s, size_t size)

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Okay so here's the tea: al_ref_buffer creates a string that references the storage of an underlying buffer. 🫶

The size of the buffer is given in bytes. You can use it to reference only part of a string or an arbitrary region of memory. It's giving "I know a guy" but the guy is memory. 💀

The signature hands you back a const ALLEGRO_USTR *, and it takes an ALLEGRO_USTR_INFO *info, a const char *s, and a size_t size. No cap.

⚠️ big important caveat, bestie: the string is valid while the underlying memory buffer is valid. If the buffer goes poof, the string goes poof too. 😭

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• al_ref_cstr(3alleg5) — go read her too 💖
• al_ref_ustr(3alleg5) — and her, she's iconic 💅

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