Is this valid C code?

char x [5] = { 0xf0, 0x0f, 0xc7, 0xc8 };

main ()
{
void (*f)() = x;
f();
}

Found this on the Everything2 page for the Pentium F00F bug. My question is essentially whether it is indeed valid to write machine code subroutines as byte arrays and call them via a function pointer. Does the Standard have anything to say about this? And is executing code in the data segment even possible on modern architectures?

>>5

array = pointer

You don't know C.