thunking, the next step

[Robert Collins]

On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 11:26, Warren Young wrote:
> Robert Collins wrote:
> > 
> > http://www.jargon.8hz.com/jargon_35.html  - see thunk, and meaning 3 is
> > what I've been using.
> 
> jargon.org is the official site, and it has a more detailed definition:
> 
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/thunk.html

Uhm, thats catb.org :}. But yes, I did dig up an older copy of the TNHD.

> Beware of definition 4, which can cause confusion in the Windows 
> environment.  It's the one I thought was being referred to when I first 
> saw this subject line.

Identical in concept though: you call a 16 bit function, and a 32 bit
function is executed - via the thunk.

Rob
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