From: "DeHackEd" <Not DOT given AT out>
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Subject: Re: Allegro Bitmap Question
Date: Sun, 9 Aug 1998 14:16:52 -0400
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You need to know the colour depth of your bitmaps (it's 8 bit if you havn't
called set_color_depth). Next, multiply that by the x and y values, but remeber
to use bytes for colour depth and not bits.

1 byte per pixel  * 8 *8 = 64;

Next, memcmp the bmp->dat entries for 64 bytes.

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>Hi everyone.  I'm trying to find a way to compare two 8 pixel by 8
>pixel Allegro BITMAPs.  I tried using memcmp, but I don't know how to
>calculate the amount of memory the bitmap takes up.  Please help!