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Subject: Re: copying data between memory locations
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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 07:31:17 -0400
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jef.mangelschots@gmail.com writes:

> In our current design, we have a package that maintains a list of
> descriptors of various buffers in the application. We don't want to
> know their datatypes or how to write data into them. 

Ok, you don't need to write to the buffers.

> We only want to maintain a physical address of them and use that
> address to directly write data into these buffers (this data comes
> out incoming packets over the network).

Umm, now you do need to write to the buffers?

As others have pointed out, your requirements are not well-stated;
they assume the implementation. And in fact, they are contradictory.

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