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From: jax@well.UUCP (Jack J. Woehr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Calling functions by address
Summary: Simple Answer!
Keywords: functions calling
Message-ID: <6995@well.UUCP>
Date: 1 Sep 88 04:40:38 GMT
References: <679@mssx.UUCP> <5595@june.cs.washington.edu>
Reply-To: jax@well.UUCP (Jack J. Woehr)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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In article <5595@june.cs.washington.edu> pardo@cs.washington.edu (David Keppel) writes:
>(much deleted) To the best of my knowledge, threaded
>code cannot be generated portably from C.  It may be possible to
>generate by writing a special set of #defines and "fake functions",
>having the compiler generate assembly, and then walking over the
>assembly to generate the threading tables and the transfer sequences.

	Got the obvious answer, son ... learn Forth!

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