In message <Pine.LNX.4.60.0410081643100.25430 at dell.enoriver.com> you wrote: > > nice idea, but sadly, doomed to failure. note that the code to copy > the patch arrays *requires* you to be able to take the sizeof() those > arrays to know *exactly* how much to copy. if you pass the array to a > function by its address, i'm pretty sure you lose the ability to take > its sizeof() anymore, isn't that right?
This is not right. Guess how memcpy() works - it's a function, btw. Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd at denx.de God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thurs- day, and Saturday. -- William Bragg