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From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Loading and Executing Object Code at Runtime
Message-ID: <BZS.91Feb16112944@world.std.com>
Date: 16 Feb 91 16:29:44 GMT
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Sender: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
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In-Reply-To: sef@kithrup.COM's message of 16 Feb 91 10:09:46 GMT


From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
>Oops.  ss is a readable and writable segment, not an executable segment.
>Memory-fault, core-dump.  (Note:  to make it work, all you have to do is
>spit out a segment prefix [a la 'call cs:@esp'].)
>
>Anyway, just a bunch of nit-picking, because I can't fall asleep yet...

Point of information!

So what you're saying is that an (assembler, library) function could
be written which calls a data address and used by any program (on a
386)? Something similar to indir(), eg: call(addr,arg1,arg2,...,argn)?
-- 
        -Barry Shein

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