overflow pdl n.
[MIT] The place where you put things when
your PDL is full. If you don't have one and too many things
get pushed, you forget something. The overflow pdl for a person's
memory might be a memo pad. This usage inspired the following
doggerel:
Hey, diddle, diddle
The overflow pdl
To get a little more stack;
If that's not enough
Then you lose it all,
And have to pop all the way back.
-The Great Quux
The term `pdl' (see PDL) seems to be primarily an MITism;
outside MIT this term is replaced by `overflow stack' (but
that wouldn't rhyme with `diddle').
[MIT] The place where you put things when
your PDL is full. If you don't have one and too many things
get pushed, you forget something. The overflow pdl for a person's
memory might be a memo pad. This usage inspired the following
doggerel:
Hey, diddle, diddle
The overflow pdl
To get a little more stack;
If that's not enough
Then you lose it all,
And have to pop all the way back.
-The Great Quux
The term `pdl' (see PDL) seems to be primarily an MITism;
outside MIT this term is replaced by `overflow stack' (but
that wouldn't rhyme with `diddle').
Related:
- overflow pdl: [MIT] n. The place where you put things when your
{pdl} is full.
If you don't have one and too many things get pushed... - Hey, diddle, diddle the overflow pdl
To get a little more stack;
If that's not enough then you lose it all And have... - stack n.
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1. n. `Program Design Language'.
Any of a large class of formal and profoundly useless... - push
[from the operation that puts the current information
on a stack,
and the fact that procedure return addresses are saved... - push: [from the operation that puts the current information on a
stack,
and the fact that procedure return addresses are saved... - pop: /pop/ [from the operation that removes the top of a stack,
and the fact that procedure return addresses are usually... - pop /pop/
[from the operation that removes the top of a
stack,
and the fact that procedure return addresses are usually... - buffer overflow: n. What happens when you try to stuff more data
into a buffer (holding area) than it can handle.
This may be due to a mismatch in the processing...
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paper (or,
in these days of on-line editing, the art of debugging... - WIBNI // n.
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