Re: dereferencing module-internal pointer inscripts/mod/file2alias.c

[Rusty Russell]

On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 08:05 +0100, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there any feasible way to dereference a pointer inside
> __mod_*_device_table which points to a string? 

No, because we would basically need to perform relocations to do so.
That is why arrays are used in the current structures.

Rusty.
-- 
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