From: G DOT DegliEsposti AT ads DOT it
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Message-ID: <C1256575.003042AF.00@vega.ads.it>
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 09:52:21 +0100
Subject: Re: allegro bmp/pcx loading problems
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>I have a program which uses allegro to load 6 bitmaps, all of size
>77x105 and i want to keep writing them over top of each other to do
>some crude animation.  However, half of the time when I try to compile
>the program, the compiler gives me the error: "virtual memory
>exhausted" the other half of the time it compiles but i get a general
maybe this is because your temporary files go to a directory with not
enough
space available.

>protection fault after it has displayed 2 frames.  What am I doing
>wrong? here is the source if you're interested (I am just trying stuff
>out and so I just modified one of the allegro examples). oh yeah by
>the way, i accidentally overwrote allegro example #15 so if someone
>could just post ex15.c that would be great too.
>
[...]
>void main()

BTW: according to ANSI, main() sould return int

>   /* read in the bitmap files */
>   the_image[0] = load_bitmap("run1.bmp", the_pallete[0]);
>   if (!the_image[0]) {printf("Error reading bitmap file run1.bmp");
[...]
>   allegro_init();
>   install_keyboard();
>   if (set_gfx_mode (GFX_AUTODETECT, 640, 480, 0, 0)!=0) exit(1);

I am not sure if this is your problem: I usually put allegro_init()
before any other call to allegro functions.

ciao
  Giacomo