Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Feb 1999 14:41:55 -0500 (EST) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: Kernel stack corruption |
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On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
> The structures I send are 2644 and 1084 bytes, so this is not too big > I think.
Normally structures are passed by pointer. Even if the structure members have to be copied (assigned) by the called procedure, it's normally more efficient. Look how it's done with 'struct termios' in the serial code. It's really quite efficient.
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