Meanings
nounreentrancy (countable and uncountable, plural reentrancies)
plural reentrancies · alternative re-entrancy
- countableuncountablecomputingThe state or condition of being reentrant.
The mikroC compiler supports only a limited function reentrancy. Functions that have no arguments and local variables can be called both from the interrupt service routines and from the main program.
2011, Dogan Ibrahim, Advanced PIC Microcontroller Projects in C, Newnes, →ISBN, page 184
Origin
- Proto-Italic*wre-
- Latinre-
- Old Frenchre-
- Middle Englishre-
- Englishre-
- Englishentrant
- Englishreentrant
- Englishreentrancy
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