Related:

• ack 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....
• unwind the stack: vi. 1. [techspeak] During the execution of a procedural language
  one is said to `unwind the stack' from a called procedure up to a caller when one discards the stack frame and any number of frames above it, popping back up to the level of the given caller....
• HCF: /H-C-F/ n. Mnemonic for `Halt and Catch Fire'
  any of several undocumented and semi-mythical machine instructions with destructive side-effects, supposedly included for test purposes on several well-known architectures going as far back as the IBM 360....
• mash the stack: [C programming] n. To corrupt the execution stack by writing past the end of a local array or other data structure.
  Code that smashes the stack can cause a return from the routine to jump to a random address, resulting in some of the most insidious data-dependent bugs known to mankind....
• vaxocentrism /vak`soh-sen'trizm/ n. [analogy with `ethnocentrism'] A notional disease said to afflict C programmers who persist in coding according to certain assumptions that are valid (esp.
  under Unix) on VAXen but false elsewhere. Among these are...
• eal time: 1. [techspeak] adj. Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds).
  Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example....
• egister dancing: n. Many older processor architectures suffer from a serious shortage of general-purpose registers.
  This is especially a problem for compiler-writers, because their generated code needs places to store temporaries for things like intermediate values in expression evaluation....
• unwind the stack vi. 1. [techspeak] During the execution of a procedural language
  one is said to `unwind the stack' from a called procedure up to a caller when one discards the stack frame and any number of frames above it, popping back up to the level of the given caller....
• push: [from the operation that puts the current information on a stack
  and the fact that procedure return addresses are saved on a stack] (Also PUSH /push/ or PUSHJ /push'J/, the latter based on the PDP-10 procedure call instruction....