Hi. I've been hacking on fontconfig a bit to make it possible to mmap the FcInit and related data structures. There is some discussion at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169345 In short, I think that one would need to replace pointers with array indices; to do otherwise seems to be asking for trouble. I've started a patch that does this; my current patch is available at http://plam.csail.mit.edu/~plam/tmp/fontconfig-strings-to-indices.diff I'm also willing to replace FcPatternIndex with a void * datatype that would be cast to ints when needed; this would avoid breaking current APIs but is less aesthetically pleasing. Does this seem to be a promising approach, and is something like this commitable when complete? Thanks, pat
