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
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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"