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• leaky heap: [Cambridge] n. An {arena} with a {memory leak}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• memory leak: n. An error in a program's dynamic-store allocation logic that causes it to fail to reclaim discarded memory, leading to eventual collapse due to memory exhaustion.
  Also (esp. at CMU) called {core leak}. These problems were severe on older machines with small, fixed-size address spaces, and special "leak detection" tools were commonly written to root them out....
• core leak n. Syn. memory leak.
• arena: [UNIX] n. The area of memory attached to a process by `brk(2)' and `sbrk(2)' and used by `malloc(3)' as dynamic storage.
  So named from a `malloc: corrupt arena' message emitted when some early versions detected an impossible value in the free block list....
• arena n. [common; Unix] The area of memory attached to a process by brk(2) and sbrk(2) and used by malloc(3) as dynamic storage.
  So named from a malloc: corrupt arena message emitted when some early versions detected an impossible value in the free block list....
• 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'....
• overrun screw n. [C programming] A variety of fandango on core produced by scribbling past the end of implementations typically have no checks for this error).
  This is relatively benign and easy to spot if the array is static...
• 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...