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From: Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>
Subject: Re: error func
Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 18:36:44 +0100
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raja wrote:

>    I am writing a function that takes the return value of the another 
> function and gives the  status of the function.
> if
>    error("functionName",arguments)
> here the function with Name "functionName " is to be executed with the 
> corresponding argunents.But by knowing the function name how can i get 
> the address if that function

dlsym().

> and how can i execute the function with the arguments.

You can't portably make a function call where the number of arguments
isn't known at compile time.

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