Size of SDL_Surfaces?

I was curious how much memory SDL_Surfaces use, so I tried the following:

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int Background = sizeof(*Surface_Background);
int Cards = sizeof(*Surface_Cards);
int Title = sizeof(*Surface_Title);

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all three of them resulted in 60 bytes, even though the images are of different dimensions. How are SDL Surfaces stored in memory and do they all use 60 bytes regardless of size??? (In my opinion hard to believe, but I'm a novice programmer, so...)

Another question: The way I see it a boolean variable should only use one bit, but I read somewhere that the smallest amount of memory which can be allocated is a byte, therefore a bool variable uses a byte. I tried this:

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bool Test1;
bool Test2[8];

cout << sizeof(Test1) << endl;
cout << sizeof(Test2) << endl;

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and it displayed 1 and 8 respectively. My question is, since a boolean technically only uses a bit, shouldn't an array of 8 bools still only allocate 8 bits or 1 byte?

It's basically like this

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char *p = malloc(10);
char *q = malloc(10000);

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You can do sizeof(p), sizeof(*p), and the same for q,*q and get the respective same answer for both.
sizeof() cannot tell you about how much additional memory has been allocated.

A surface by it's nature is going to have a variable component (the image data), so it will be the case that the variably sized aspects of this data will be allocated at run-time, and all that will be in the struct is a pointer to it.

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Originally Posted by LyTning94

Another question: The way I see it a boolean variable should only use one bit

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Good for you but you are wrong. See the rest of your sentence below.

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Originally Posted by LyTning94

I read somewhere that the smallest amount of memory which can be allocated is a byte, therefore a bool variable uses a byte.

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The default packet for information in a computer is a byte, there were many decisions leading up to this which you can read about by googling around for computer history.

I believe the actual size of a bool is left up to the implementation, the only requirement per standard is that it is capable of holding 1 or 0.

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Originally Posted by LyTning94

My question is, since a boolean technically only uses a bit, shouldn't an array of 8 bools still only allocate 8 bits or 1 byte?

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The answer to this should be self evident now.