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In article <338@boing.UUCP>, dale@boing.UUCP writes:
> +--- From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
> | Well, there are really only three peices of information you need: the
> | bitmap (BMAP), the color map (CMAP), and the display modes. The struct
> | bitmap contains all the bitplanes.

> My concern has nothing really to do with IPC stuff, except that these
> structures may change in new releases of the o.s. In particular, since
> you can only get a colormap structure from the system via GetColorMap
> the 'struct ColorMap' is bigger in V1.4

Well, the "colormap" I was referring to wasn't a struct ColorMap, just
the IFF CMAP chunk. But your message does emphasise that there are
lots of stuff that you *do* want to ship around that *can't* be
allocated in contiguous memory.

Or is IFF changing in 1.4 ;->?

> Just thought you should know that in order for us to make forward
> progress you need to be careful about how you play with internal amiga
> structures.

I always am. Could you guys give us a "DEVS:" device so we can Examine
and ExNext it and stop looking through the device list? There are a few
other places, too, where it would be desirable to have a more secure
interface...
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