The following code doesn't work as intended but hopefully illustrates my attempt:
long foo (int a, int b) {
return a + b;
}
void call_foo_from_stack (void) {
/* reserve space on the stack to store foo's code */
char code[sizeof(*foo)];
/* have a pointer to the beginning of the code */
long (*fooptr)(int, int) = (long (*)(int, int)) code;
/* copy foo's code to the stack */
memcpy(code, foo, sizeof(*foo));
/* execute foo from the stack */
fooptr(3, 5);
}
Obviously, sizeof(*foo) doesn't return the size of the code of the foo() function.
I am aware that executing the stack is restricted on some CPUs (or at least if a restriction flag is set). Apart from GCC's nested functions that can eventually be stored on the stack, is there a way to do that in standard C?