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.
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....
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....