From: Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: allegro quetion
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 08:12:18 +0100
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Filipe Marques de Almeida writes:
>my question is:
>are the memory bitmaps always one chunk (like graph mode 0x13) or is there
>the danger of the bitmaps getting fragmented

As long as they are allocated with the create_bitmap() routine, they
will always be a single linear block of memory. The only time they might
be fragmented is if they are an SVGA screen bitmap or were produced by
the create_sub_bitmap() function...


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