• Thunking

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    thunking

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    1. (computing) The use of thunks (data mappings).
      • 1995, Kathleen Panov, Larry Salomon, Arthur Panov, The Art of OS/2 Warp ProgrammingDLLs are greatly affected by this thunking mechanism.
      • 1997, Bruce McKinney, Hardcore Visual BasicBut 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 RuntimeMost runtimes (including the CLR) provide a way to integrate with C-based libraries through a thunking layer.
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