Chris Benoit. Christopher Michael Benoit (French pronunciation: â; May 21, 1967 â June 24, 2007) was a Canadian professional wrestler.
The problem. Say you have a website (site A) with an iframe wherein you host another website (site B). In old and unsecure browsers it was possible to do a JavaScript call from site B to site A like this: window.parent.doSomething(); Here the doSomething function is living on site A and is called by site B through its parent window.
When dereferenced, a function pointer can be used to invoke the function it points to and pass its arguments just like a normal function call. Such an invocation is also known as an indirect call, because the function is being invoked indirectly through a variable instead of directly through a fixed name or address.