Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!qucdn!spraggej
Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
Date: Wednesday, 10 Apr 1991 14:55:06 EDT
From: John G. Spragge <SPRAGGEJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
Message-ID: <91100.145507SPRAGGEJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Pointers to procedures
References:  <26486@adm.brl.mil>

To read the name of a procedure and map it to a procedure
address, the program would have to look up the procedure in
the symbol table. Unfortunately, most programs do not include
the symbol table in their production versions, since it takes
up space. So the user can not enter the name of the program
to execute directly.

disclaimer: Queen's University supplies me with computer services, not
            my opinions.

John G. Spragge