Re: Functions using variable values

In article <5jmrko$287@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>, The RATS <dbadmin@svilosa.bis.bg> writes >ADALBERTO ALTAMIRANO wrote: >> >> Hi everybody!! >> >> My question is in regard to the use of functions, specially in running any >> function by using variables values; for example : >> >> FUNCTION name_function() >> LET var_name = "action" >> CALL var_name >> >> Well, that's the main idea. >> Does anybody have any algorithm to this situation or another idea >> to find out my problem ? >> > >We have a solution to this problem, which works fine but is OS-dependent. >To cut a long story short, we decided to read the symbolic debug info >which is usually attached at the end of the executable (.4ge ). Our programs >work fine under SCO 3.2, the only overhead being a delay during program >startup, because we cache all the function names, to avoid performance >problems during program execution. > >If you are using the same OS and the same executable format and you >are interested, we can send you the C sources, so you can take a closer >look. > Yes, please - I am interested.. -- David Williams