How does SDL load bit map images?

[Austin J]

I don't mean how do I load a bmp, I mean how does SDL manage to do this?

[Peter87]

SDL is open source so you can look at the code if you want to know exactly how they do it. The function that you should look at is SDL_LoadBMP_RW defined in SDL_bmp.c.

[Austin J]

Ok thanks, I didn't want to try to find it in the source code at first, but since you've referenced it I guess I will!