Wikipedia: Callback

Callback
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In computer science, a callback is a concept, which allow a low level layer to call a function from a higher level layer, when usually, the higher level call the low level layer.

C Example

Here is an example in the C programming language

/** send a sequence of numbers to a callback function */
void counter( void (*callback)(int) )
{
   int i;
   for (i=15; i<20;i++)
   {
       callback(i);
   }
}
/** print number in hexadecimal */
void printHex(int i)
{
   printf("%x\\n",i);
}

/** print number in decimal */
void printDec(int i)
{
   printf("%d\\n",i);
}

int main(void)
{
   printf ("decimal:\\n");
   counter( printDec );

   printf ("hexa:\\n");
   counter( printHex );

   return 0;
}

Example result

decimal:
15
16
17
18
19
hexa:
f
10
11
12
13
14

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