From: ludvig <ludvig AT club-internet DOT fr>
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Subject: Re: Allegro - PALLETE and BITMAP
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 00:28:38 +0200
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Mike Coulson wrote:
> 
>         At the start of the Allegro example program number 18, the
> following lines appear:
> 
>         PALLETE my_pallete;
>         BITMAP *scr_buffer;
> 
> Can someone tell me why the BITMAP has to be a pointer to the buffer
> scr_buffer, whereas my_pallete is not a pointer?
> 
> Yes.
> I am a beginner.
> 
> Thanks,
> --
> Mike Coulson

I just guess that PALLETE is a struct with a special size(3*256bytes)
where a ordinary bitmap might be as big or small as you wish(if you got
enough memory ofcourse:) therefore a pointer is nessecary to the bitmap
as it's size might be decided at runtime=compiler can't make room for
something with the size "unknown".

Ludvig