glue code

noun

Code that serves to connect separate parts of a program for compatibility or interoperability.

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Meanings

nounglue code (uncountable)
  1. uncountablecomputingCode that serves to connect separate parts of a program for compatibility or interoperability.

    The linker interposes the glue code in front of each downward call.

    2000, John R Levine, Linkers and Loaders
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    One of the concerns raised was that glue code is typically something that is very special for a given context and therefore hard to reuse.

    1993, Eike Best, editor, CONCUR '93: 4th International Conference on Concurrency Theory
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