thunking

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Noun

thunking (uncountable)

(computing) The use of thunks (data mappings).
- 1995, Kathleen Panov, Larry Salomon, Arthur Panov, The Art of OS/2 Warp Programming:
  DLLs are greatly affected by this thunking mechanism.
- 1997, Bruce McKinney, Hardcore Visual Basic:
  But if you have a copy of Visual Basic version 4 hanging around, thunking is easy.
- 2003, Don Box, Chris Sells, Essential.NET: The Common Language Runtime:
  Most runtimes (including the CLR) provide a way to integrate with C-based libraries through a thunking layer.

Translations

Translations

French: translation (fr) f, mappage (fr) m, mise en correspondance f

Verb

thunking

present participle and gerund of thunk

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