Size of a function

[jgh at miduet.UUCP]

In article <609 at sdchema.sdchem.UUCP> tps at sdchemf.UUCP (Tom Stockfisch) writes:
>In article <2100 at brl-adm.ARPA> LINNDR%VUENGVAX.BITNET at wiscvm.wisc.edu writes:
>> ... there is no way currently defined in
>>C to get the size of a function, in any units. My immediate interest is
>>in telling what function an address belongs during run-time.
>>
>>It might be nice if sizeof(function_name) could be defined to return this
>>value.
>
>The trouble is that any such scheme will not be implementable on a machine
>with a segmented architecture.  On such a machine, different functions might
>not belong to the same address space, and thus pointers into each of them
>could not be meaningfully compared.  

I had a need to pass a copy of a function to another task. Sizeof( function )
would have been handy....

(That
should
put
the
cat
among
the
pigeons!)

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