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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Strings as function names (again)
Message-ID: <14972@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 25 Jan 91 17:05:25 GMT
References: <mpapp.664709840@godzilla> <388@bria>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <388@bria> bria!mike (Michael Stefanik) writes:
>There is a function called nlist() that will read the namelist ...

There are several problems with nlist(), apart from UNIX dependence.
One is that you have to tell it a path to the executable file, and
that is not in general available for the currently-executing process.
Another is that often the symbol table is stripped off the executable
file in order to conserve disk space.