On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:21:50 +0100, Martin Gregorie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The first time I ran across the term "thunking" was when Windows 3 >introduced the Win32S shim and hence the need to switch addressing between >16 bit and 32 bit modes across call interfaces. That was called "thunking" >by Microsoft and even they would surely admit it was a kludge. Win32s thunks are a completely different beast from the original Algol 60 thunks. As far as I know, the first published description of thunks was: Ingerman PZ (1961) Thunks: A way of compiling procedure statements with some comments on procedure declarations, CACM 4:55-58. Steve Schafer Fenestra Technologies Corp. http://www.fenestra.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list