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If the specified `decimal` can be encoded in 5 or fewer bytes of the _multi‐width encoding_ format, then store `decimal` into the specified `buffer` in that format, and return the number of bytes written to `buffer`. Otherwise, return 0. The behavior is undefined unless `buffer` points to a memory area having at least 5 bytes. Note that this function does not supporting encoding values requiring a full IEEE network encoding, which is supported by the `decimal64ToMultiWidthEncoding` function.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdldfp_decimalconvertutil.h>`

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static
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decimal64ToMultiWidthEncodingRaw(
    unsigned char* buffer,
    xref:BloombergLP/bdldfp/Decimal64.adoc[bdldfp::Decimal64] decimal);
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