thunking

noun

thunking

noun

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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences The use of thunks (data mappings).

DLLs are greatly affected by this thunking mechanism.1995, Kathleen Panov, Larry Salomon, Arthur Panov, The Art of OS/2 Warp Programming:
But if you have a copy of Visual Basic version 4 hanging around, thunking is easy.1997, Bruce McKinney, Hardcore Visual Basic:

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Most runtimes (including the CLR) provide a way to integrate with C-based libraries through a thunking layer.2003, Don Box, Chris Sells, Essential.NET: The Common Language Runtime:

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