Strings as function names (again)

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <388 at bria> bria!mike (Michael Stefanik) writes:
>There is a function called nlist() that will read the namelist ...

There are several problems with nlist(), apart from UNIX dependence.
One is that you have to tell it a path to the executable file, and
that is not in general available for the currently-executing process.
Another is that often the symbol table is stripped off the executable
file in order to conserve disk space.