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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Strings as function names (again)
Message-ID: <15133@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 8 Feb 91 20:53:50 GMT
References: <388@bria> <14972@smoke.brl.mil> <wolfram.666028267@ikki>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <wolfram.666028267@ikki> wolfram@ikki.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Wolfram Roesler) writes:
-gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
->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.
-Sure? How about argv[0] ?

No, that is extremely unreliable.