Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Functions pointers and stuff
Message-ID: <1989Mar28.050604.8190@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1715@leah.Albany.Edu>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 89 05:06:04 GMT

In article <1715@leah.Albany.Edu> rds95@leah.Albany.Edu (Robert Seals) writes:
>Is there some sneaky way to execute the function when all I know is
>the name of it, i.e., a pointer to several letters which spell it's name.

Not unless your compiler is willing to help.  Most aren't.  In general
the correspondence between name and code address (which is usually what's
needed to call the thing) is lost at compile time.  Most compilers put an
indication of it into the symbol table, but programs don't have any easy
way to get at that information for themselves.
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