From: AndrewJ <luminous-is AT REMOVE DOT home DOT com>
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Subject: Re: pass C source to program binary?
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On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 11:07:42 -0500 (CDT), Jeff Williams <jeffw AT darwin DOT sfbr DOT org>
wrote:

>Is there a obvious technique for passing the source code for a small C
>function (e.g., `for (i=1;i<=N;i++) y[i]=foo(x[i]);'), which might be in
>a file or passed via command-line, to an already-compiled C program and
>have that program be able to interpret and use the function internally?
>
>I'm looking for a way to give a program some extra flexibility
>without requiring the user to write various custom C functions and
>then re-compile/re-link with the main program.

Only if you want to write your own "on-the-fly" interpreter yourself.  Think
for a moment... How do you get programs from C?  You compile them!  So, how can
the program you've made compile source code when it itself is not the compiler?

-- 
AndrewJ