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11 Oct 2024 11:10:48 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Does anybody know this?  
From: Jim Henderson
Date: 2 Dec 2007 14:28:29
Message: <4753075d$1@news.povray.org>
On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:09:21 -0800, Darren New wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> But it wouldn't be hard to write a function that does the low-level
>> stuff, either,
> 
> Unless you're going to do something like write into a char[], then cast
> the char[] to a function pointer, I'm pretty sure you can't invoke
> arbitrary machine code from C. :-) *Somewhere* there's assembler.

I'd think that'd be true for pretty much any language, though - even Ada.

But I was thinking along the lines of what you said.

Jim


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