static function tables

[Ken <shiva at compuserve dot com>]

What's the right way to do static tables containing function pointers in
C++?

I have an embedded C app that parses a command from a host and looks it
up in a group of tables. Each table represents an array of related
commands. It contains an 8-byte char[] of the command, a parameter
count, some flags, and a pointer to the function that handles that
command. There are several such tables, linked in based on what feature
set a given app will have.

When I move this app to C++, what's a reasonable OOP-ish way of handling
these tables?

To make command-lookup fast, a table is alphabatized and coded in
assembler (so that I can place labels within the array) and a parallel
26-word array of pointers points to the first command starting with a
given letter. Any suggestions for improvement? A typical table might
have 20-100 commands and an app might have 3-10 tables.

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