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• ampoline n. An incredibly hairy technique, found in some HLL and program-overlay implementations (e.
  g., on the Macintosh), that involves on-the-fly generation of small executable (and, likely as not, self-modifying) code objects to do indirection between code sections....
• live data n. 1. Data that is written to be interpreted and takes over program flow when triggered by some un-obvious operation, such as viewing it.
  One use of such hacks is to break security. For example, some smart terminals have commands that allow one to download strings to program key...
• live data: n. 1. Data that is written to be interpreted and takes over program flow when triggered by some un-obvious operation, such as viewing it.
  One use of such hacks is to break security. For example, some smart terminals have commands that allow one to download strings to program key...
• TRAMPOLINE ACROBATS do it in the ai
• ap: v. To replace a pointer to a pointer with a direct pointe
  to replace an old address with the forwarding address found there....
• ap v. To replace a pointer to a pointer with a direct pointe
  o replace an old address with the forwarding address found there....
• TRAMPOLINE ACROBATS do it over a ne
• hunk /thuhnk/ n. 1. [obs.]"A piece of coding which provides an address", according to P.
  Z. Ingerman, who invented thunks in 1961 as a way of binding actual parameters to their formal definitions in Algol-60 procedure calls....
• hairy adj. 1. Annoyingly complicated. "DWIM is incredibly hairy.
  2. Incomprehensible. "DWIM is incredibly hairy....