glue code

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

Noun

  1. Code that serves to connect separate parts of a program for compatibility or interoperability.
    • 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...
    • The linker interposes the glue code in front of each downward call. - 2000, John R Levine, Linkers and Loaders: