From: Marcus Sundberg <mackan@stacken.kth.se>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 20:00:09 +0200

Re: libggi doc changes

Andrew Apted wrote:
> I guess just exporting a `stride' field (like what is already in the
> pixellinearbuffer) would be OK, but IMHO that's where it's gotta end
> otherwise we may as well go back to using the nasty old DirectBuffer.

Well that's what I meant. But as Get/Put buffers don't have a
fixed width they don't have a fixed stride either. Therefore
we call it "modulo" or something like that. It's meaning will be
that the horizontal buffer size must always be an integer multiple
of it.

//Marcus
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