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From: ech@poseidon.UUCP (Edward C Horvath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Re: what the heck is "reentrant"?
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Date: 9 Aug 88 19:48:57 GMT
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> I'm excluding rescursive routines because they are by definition,
> and presumably be design, reentrant.

No, a recursive routine calls itself only at specific, presumably "safe" points
in its lifetime: operations that "look" atomic (like i := i+1) ARE atomic.  Such
routines may still not be reentrant.

=Ned Horvath=