There exists a special variant of a message call, named delegatecall
which is identical to a message call apart from the fact that the code at the target address is executed in the context of the calling contract and msg.sender
and msg.value
do not change their values. This allows a smart contract to dynamically load code from a different address at runtime. Storage, current address and balance still refer to the calling contract.
Use delegatecall
with caution and make sure to never call into untrusted contracts. If the target address is derived from user input ensure to check it against a whitelist of trusted contracts.