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barber@equinox.unr.edu writes:


>	I'm attempting to write a program which produces a report based on 
>a form definition file.  The form definition file will contain two types of 
>information: 1) straight text to be copied to the report verbatium (sp),
>and 2) macros, which will be a name of a function located inside my 
>program.  
>	The problem I'm having is finding a way to call a function given
>a string representation of it's name.  So for example, if my program read
>the following from the form definition file:
>	@fn_doit
>it would call the function fn_doit.  I thought of building a local symbol
>table of functions callable from a form definition macro.  The symbol table

I don't think there's any "straight" way to do this.  You could read the .MAP
file created by the linker in at runtime, then lookup the addresses there.