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From: larry@cca.UUCP (Laurence Schmitt)
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Subject: Re: Arcane C hacks?
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Date: Fri, 28-Feb-86 07:53:09 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 28 07:53:09 1986
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> 
> 2)  Is there a machine independent way to coerce non-pointer-
>     to-function values to pointer-to-function values?
> 

Considering that the program in question would be generating machine code
on the fly, an extremely machine *dependent* operation, it seems curious to
complain that the jump operation itself cannot be made machine independent! :-)

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