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From: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (The WITNESS)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: aesthetics of C, and the ANSI standard
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Date: Wed, 5-Sep-84 13:09:44 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep  5 13:09:44 1984
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[gollum :-)]

> From: chip@t4test.UUCP (Chip Rosenthal)

> >It *does* confuse the compiler. You can take the address of a label
> >using "&foo".
> > By the way, is there anything useful you can do with this feature?
> >Use it as a function address? Assigned goto's??? Something else?????

> Sure you can!  You can write programs which have self modifying
> code!!

I've already done that, WITHOUT using labels:

char *myptr, myarray[5];

gobble() {
	myarray[50] = 0x0;
}

which is usually good for a core dump :-)

--bsa