From: uhfgood AT aol DOT com (Uhfgood)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: -KWII- Allegro and RLE sprites
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Date: 16 Feb 1999 16:29:17 GMT
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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You said it was a bad idea to do this.
But is it still a bad idea, when I have
the RLE_SPRITE *jumpman[ 12 ];
declaration?  didn't I just make allegro
set aside extra memory for those rle
sprites before I aliased them?

                                             -Keith
>> Then at the end of my program i have a loop to destroy the 
>> sprites like this:
>>   for( c = 0; c < 12; c++ )
>>     destroy_rle_sprites( jumpman[ c ] );
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>Bad idea. The datafile routines are in charge of allocating and freeing
>memory: you shouldn't go anywhere near this yourself. You've just 
>copied the address of the sprite objects, not the object itself, so
>you don't own it and should try to destroy it. Use unload_datafile()
>when you want to free up the memory. Actually, I'm surprised that
>it doesn't crash when you reach this code!
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>	Shawn Hargreaves.
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*Keith Weatherby II*
*Uhfgood AT aol DOT com*
*Vice AT gconn DOT com*