Re: [ft-devel] Proposal: add a raster specific allocation function to the memory management API

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I'd like to add a callback to the memory management specifically for
> (re)allocating bitmap/raster memory.

Sounds like a good idea.

> My intention would be to have the API call take a bitmap struct as
> it's parameter, [...]

I assume that you want to implement a new API function, right?  For
backwards compatibility it's not possible to alter the existing ones.

> Mainly, I wanted to check whether this type of capability would be
> seen as beneficial enough to warrant including, before I spend too
> much more time on it!  Especially as it is a change in the "public"
> API.

It seems to be a change with only small modifications of the internal
structures, and without any large size or speed impacts, so please go
on!


    Werner