Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: varargs -> normal parameters
Message-ID: <1990Jul18.152234.4430@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <!_X$`+#@rpi.edu>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 90 15:22:34 GMT

In article <!_X$`+#@rpi.edu> joefritz@pawl12.pawl.rpi.edu (Jochen M. Fritz) writes:
>I want to write a function, that can call any other function.  The called
>function and its parmeters are given as parameters so that it can be called.
>The clintcher is since I want to be able to call anything how can I 
>dereference the parameters to call the function?

You cannot do this portably in C; there are an increasing number of compilers
which cannot do it at all, because calling conventions differ depending on
the details of the parameters.
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