Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!ima!haddock!karl From: karl@haddock.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Variable function names Message-ID: <1995@haddock.ISC.COM> Date: 16 Dec 87 23:16:05 GMT References: <973@russell.STANFORD.EDU> <47000025@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston Lines: 10 In article <47000025@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes: >[Re generating code at runtime: (*(int (*)())&array[0])()] >I have since learned that on some systems ... it won't work, and that ANSI C >does not require it to work (A FATAL FLAW). BUT, on all the machines that I >regularly use ... it does work So, it's a FATAL FLAW that ANSI C has to work on machines other than the ones you regularly use? Gimme a break. Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint