Ack Puke N. Some Processor Architectures Are Said To `puke Their Guts Onto The Stack' To Save Their Internal State During Exception Processing.

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stack puke n.

Some processor architectures are said to
`puke their guts onto the stack' to save their internal state
during exception processing. The Motorola 68020, for example,
regurgitates up to 92 bytes on a bus fault. On a pipelined
machine, this can take a while.

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