al_ustr_new_from_buffer(3alleg5)

💖 al_ustr_new_from_buffer 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the Allegro 5 API manual — yeah, the 3alleg5 girlies know ✨

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🎀 NAME 🎀

al_ustr_new_from_buffer — Allegro 5 API, no cap 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

ALLEGRO_USTR *al_ustr_new_from_buffer(const char *s, size_t size)

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so the way this works is SO clean — you hand it a buffer, and it makes you a brand new string that's a copy of it. that's it, that's the whole vibe 🦋

the buffer is the one pointed to by s, and size tells it how many bytes to take. not chars, bestie — bytes. size in bytes fr fr 📏

⚠️ okay listen, this one MATTERS: the string you get back is yours to deal with, and it must eventually be freed with al_ustr_free(3alleg5). not "should", not "maybe" — must. otherwise that memory is just... gone. leaked. living its best life rent-free 😭 so free it. periodt.

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• al_ustr_new(3alleg5) — the other one, go look 🫶

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 💜 this was the Allegro reference manual, manual section 3alleg5, and honestly? iconic energy. go free your strings 🧚✨