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Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Strings as function names (again)
Keywords: function adresses pointers
Message-ID: <388@bria>
Date: 24 Jan 91 06:49:39 GMT
References: <mpapp.664709840@godzilla>
Reply-To: bria!mike (Michael Stefanik)
Organization: Briareus Corporation, Los Angeles, CA
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In article <mpapp.664709840@godzilla> !mpapp (Mike Papper) writes:
|Again, the question, a bit more succintely is:
|Can I find the adress of a function from its name?
|That is, given the text string of a function, can I
|get its adress to give to a pointer variable?

This is a solution only if your using UNIX ...

There is a function called nlist() that will read the namelist of an
image, and return various and sundry tidbits of information.  One of
these tidbits is n_value, which is the value of the symbol.  Might
be helpful.
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