From: Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: ALLEGRO suggestion
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 09:58:27 +0000
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Paul Derbyshire writes:
>I would be pleased if Allegro added an option to obtain the amount
>of memory a bitmap or sprite or music or sound resource is
>consuming. I.e. a bunch of functions such as:
>
>size_t size_of_bitmap (BITMAP *bmp)

This information is all easily available: just look at the definitions
of the structures. For a sample, it is:

        sizeof(SAMPLE) + sample->len;

For a bitmap:

        sizeof(BITMAP) + (bmp->h * sizeof(char *)) + (bmp->w * bmp->h);

RLE sprites, MIDI files, etc, can be measured in a similar manner...

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