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Revision as of 17:36, 6 February 2023
A subroutine call (or function call or procedure call) is the operation of invoking a subroutine. On a single CPU, this is now usually done with a special instruction in the object code; on systems which interpolate a data network between components of the system, there are protocols which implement remote procedure calls.
