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
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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