GLSL dynamic size mat4 array

Hiya, I'm playing around a bit with 'my first shader' in GLSL, and I bumped into my first few problems. One I 'hacked' around, but the other one keeps me clueless. In short; I'm trying to do character animation (rigging) on the GPU. Which means moving my matrices to it, and do the maths there. Now, I haven't actually figured out all the appropiate functions yet so that part's missing, but I'm already having problems enough with those actual matrices. The thing is that I simply don't know how many matrices I'll have, and as far as I know GLSL doesn't have pointer magic (which I could really use here). And I don't want to give my number of matrices away in source (since it can change any moment by switching model, and I don't want to have a 'hard limit'). Now, this should be possible if I understand the GLSL doc correctly:

Quote:

http://oss.sgi.com/projects/ogl-sample/registry/ARB/GLSLangSpec.Full.1.10.59.pdf 4.1.9 - Arrays: If an array is indexed with an expression that is not an integral constant expression or passed as an argument to a function, then its size must be declared before any such use. It is legal to declare an array without a size and then later re-declare the same name as an array of the same type and specify a size.

Which makes me give it a try like this;

varying vec3 normal, lightDir;
attribute float bonenum;
uniform mat4 trix[];

void main() {	
	int bonenum2 = int(bonenum);
	mat4 trix[bonenum2]; // error here

	lightDir = normalize(vec3(gl_LightSource[0].position));
	normal = normalize(gl_NormalMatrix * gl_Normal);
		
//	gl_Position = ftransform();
//	gl_Position = gl_ModelViewProjectionMatrix * gl_Vertex;
	gl_Position = gl_ModelViewProjectionMatrix * trix[bonenum2] * gl_Vertex;
}

I'm not sure if I declare it correctly since a mat4 is a 2 dimensional array in the first place. Anyhow, the line marked 'error here' throws 'constant expression required' in my shader builder (I'm working on a mac) but according to the doc that's not needed.. or am I reading it wrong? It doesn't exactly specify it can be a variable size, I get that much. Basically I'm setting the array of mat4 at once, and then per vertex I pass on an attribute telling the GPU what matrix to use. I'm not passing the size of the array anywhere, but that shouldn't be a problem (as long as I don't have to recompile the shader etc, but can set it as a uniform var). The conversion bonenum <-> bonenum2 is my other 'problem', I can't pass integers as attributes. But a double cast (one in openGL, one here) seems to solve that. It ain't perfect, but it'll work for now. Can anybody enlighten me how this is supposed to work / what I'm doing wrong? Cheers!