PLSMEMA(3plplot)

💅 PLSMEMA — plsmema(3plplot)

Ok bestie, so this is the plsmema page from the PLplot API, and it's honestly giving "niche but iconic" energy. Let's get into it ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

plsmema — Set the memory area to be plotted (RGBA) 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

plsmema(maxx, maxy, plotmem)

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So what this one does, no cap: it sets the memory area to be plotted (using the memcairo driver, iykyk) as the dev member of the stream structure. Like, that's the whole vibe. 💅

It also sets the number of pixels in the memory you pass in plotmem, which is a block of memory that's maxy by maxx by 4 bytes long. The example they give is literally 480 x 640 x 4 — and yes, the order is (Y, X, RGBA). Note it, bestie, because it's Y first and that's just how it is. 🙈

⚠️ This memory will have to be freed by the user! Not the library, not the driver, not your fairy godmother — you. So don't ghost that free(), fr fr. 😭

Redacted form: plsmema(maxx, maxy, plotmem)

This function is not used in any examples. Like, zero examples. It's the main character who never shows up on screen. 🫶

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🌈 ARGUMENTS 🌈

• maxx (PLINT(3plplot), input) — the size of the memory area along the X coordinate. 💖
• maxy (PLINT(3plplot), input) — the size of the memory area along the Y coordinate. 💜
• plotmem (PLPointer(3plplot), input) — a pointer to the very beginning of a user-supplied writeable memory area. Yes, writeable. You gotta be able to write to it. 🖊️✨

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

Many developers have contributed to PLplot over its long history — and they're all credited at http://plplot.sourceforge.net/credits.php 🫶 Honestly? Iconic collaborative energy. 🌟

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💀 SEE ALSO 💀

PLplot documentation at http://plplot.sourceforge.net/documentation.php — go read it, it's lowkey a whole library of lore. 🔥

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That's the whole page, bestie — you ate that. Now go free that memory. 🧚‍♀️

— sign-off from the plplot-manpage girlies: this was PLSMEMA(3plplot), dated August, 2026, and it's a wrap 💖✨🎀