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• heisenbug /hi:'zen-buhg/ n. [from Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics] A bug that disappears or alters its behavior when one attempts to probe or isolate it.
  (This usage is not even particularly fanciful...
• Bohr bug: /bohr buhg/ [from quantum physics] n. A repeatable {bug}
  one that manifests reliably under a possibly unknown but well-defined set of conditions....
• Bohr bug /bohr buhg/ n. [from quantum physics] A repeatable bug
  one that manifests reliably under a possibly unknown but well-defined set of conditions....
• overrun screw: [C programming] n. A variety of {fandango on core} produced by scribbling past the end of an array (C implementations typically have no checks for this error).
  This is relatively benign and easy to spot if the array is static...
• aliasing bug: n. A class of subtle programming errors that can arise in code that does dynamic allocation, esp.
  via `malloc(3)' or equivalent. If several pointers address (`aliases for') a given hunk of storage, it may happen that the storage is freed or reallocated (and thus moved) through one alias and then referenced through another, which may lead to subtle (and possibly intermittent) lossage depending on the state and the allocation history of the malloc {arena}....
• mandelbug: /man'del-buhg/ [from the Mandelbrot set] n.
  A bug whose underlying causes are so complex and obscure as to make its behavior appear chaotic or even non-deterministic....
• fandango on core: [UNIX/C hackers, from the Mexican dance] n.
  In C, a wild pointer that runs out of bounds, causing a {core dump}, or corrupts the `malloc(3)' {arena} in such a way as to cause mysterious failures later on, is sometimes said to have `done a fandango on core'....
• fandango on core n. [Unix/C hackers, from the Iberian dance] In C
  a wild pointer that runs out of bounds, causing a core dump, or corrupts the malloc(3) arena in such a way as to cause mysterious failures later on, is sometimes said to have `done a fandango on core'....
• aliasing bug n. A class of subtle programming errors that can arise in code that does dynamic allocation, esp.
  via malloc(3) or equivalent. If several pointers address (`aliases for') a given hunk of storage, it may happen that the storage is freed or reallocated (and thus moved) through one alias and then referenced through another, which may lead to subtle (and possibly intermittent) lossage depending on the state and the allocation history of the malloc arena....