Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!uw-june!pardo From: pardo@uw-june.UUCP (David Keppel) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Variable function names Message-ID: <3826@uw-june.UUCP> Date: 15 Dec 87 19:17:44 GMT References: <973@russell.STANFORD.EDU> <47000025@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: pardo@uw-june.UUCP (David Keppel) Organization: U of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle Lines: 9 Keywords: architecture [ why don't all machines let us execute code stored in an array ] Some machines make optimizations about where the executable code and data live, and trying to execute code from the data region breaks some of those optimizations. [OK, not many, but a *few*] ;-D on ("And, as a consolation prize, you get Rice-A-Roni") Pardo "You can do anything you want, if you don't mind slow"