Re: next pass of cleaning up micropatch.c

In message [off-list ref] 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

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On Sat, 9 Oct 2004, Wolfgang Denk wrote:

In message [off-list ref] you wrote:

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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.

sure.  and it accepts a size parameter, which is why it works.  i'm 
not sure what you're getting at.

rday