Answer(B)
a procedure is reentrant if it can be interrupted in the middle of its execution, and then be safely called again ("re-entered") before its previous invocations complete execution. The interruption could be caused by an internal action such as a jump or call, or by an external action such as a hardware interrupt or signal. Once the reentered invocation completes, the previous invocations will resume correct execution.
A subroutine that is directly or indirectly recursive should be reentrant. This policy is partially enforced by structured programming languages. However a subroutine can fail to be reentrant if it relies on a global variable to remain unchanged but that variable is modified when the subroutine is recursively invoked.
Source:- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reentrancy_(computing)
Where we encounter reentrant procedures:-
- The routine is recursive (or mutually-recursive with some other set of routines).
- It gets called by another thread.
- It gets called by an interrupt.
If any of these happen, and the routine is modifying a global (or C static
local), then the new execution could potentially wipe out the changes the first execution made. As an example, if that global was used as a loop control variable, it might cause the first execution, when it finally gets to resume, to loop the wrong number of times.
Source:-http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7025857/what-is-a-re-entrant-procedure