Re: what's a callback?

From: Anthony Fremont (spam_at_anywhere.com)
Date: 12/21/04 

Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 22:35:09 GMT

"John Larkin" <john@spamless.usa> wrote in message

> My (perhaps non-professional-programmer) definition of that is
> "relocatable" or "PIC" (position independent) code.

Yes, PIC is more common it seems. I come from the less popular
GE/Honeywell/Bull background. Actually, the GE part was a little (and I
do mean little) before my time.

> "Pure" code is code that has no associated statics and if of course
> not self-modifying, so that it can be executed by multiple threads
> without hassle.

You are right, of course. ;-)

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