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From:	ld AT jasmine DOT netrix DOT com (Long Doan)
Subject:	Re: Execution of Data ?
To:	mbbad AT s-crim1 DOT dl DOT ac DOT uk (I. Badcoe)
Sender:	ld AT jasmine (Long Doan)
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Organization:	Netrix Corporation
References:	<3ugi2m$cq7 AT mserv1 DOT dl DOT ac DOT uk>
Date:	Wed, 19 Jul 1995 12:12:54 GMT
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In article <3ugi2m$cq7 AT mserv1 DOT dl DOT ac DOT uk>, mbbad AT s-crim1 DOT dl DOT ac DOT uk (I. Badcoe) writes:
|> Hi,
|> 	Just a quick query.  Am I right in thinking that I can load a suitable
|> set of bytes into an array and then jump to the start of the array (perhaps
|> by casting, perhaps using some of the go32_dpmi_* functions or perhaps with
|> inline asm) and it will execute happily under go32 ?

  Yes, you can, but you don't have to use inline assembly or
go32_... functions or anything. Just point a function pointer to that
code and call the function. (Make sure that your %ds segment is
executable, though.)

|> 	I seem to remember when I looked at some of the _go32_dpmi* function
|> source that they did similar things to this (except perhaps they always use
|> DOS-memory; that may be because they always use RM code).

Long.

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