[ft] Monochrome bitmaps uses two bytes??

[samaram s]

Hi,

I am using FT_LOAD_MONOCHROME to get a single bit bitmap.Irrespective of the Bitmap->width ,It is allocating two bytes of data for each row.Why is it so?
I thought it should have only a byte , if bitmap->width is ( i mean x_max for each glyph) less than 8.

Can anybody please explain me the reason behind this??


Thanks,
Sam