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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: sizeof(function) - preproposal surv
Message-ID: <7321@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 23 Feb 88 18:46:22 GMT
References: <11801@brl-adm.ARPA> <28700026@ccvaxa>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <28700026@ccvaxa> aglew@ccvaxa.UUCP writes:
>I have long wanted (and have promised to come up with a portable standard
>for, really, I have) the ability to manipulate code as data.

Good luck -- on some (important) architectures, you have to get the
operating system to help with this, since the hardware distinguishes
between instruction and data address spaces.