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Ash Vt. To Destroy The Contents Of (said Of A Data Structure).
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trash vt.
To destroy the contents of (said of a data
structure). The most common of the family of near-synonyms
including mung, mangle, and scribble.
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ash: vt. To destroy the contents of (said of a data structure).
The most common of the family of near-synonyms including {mung}, {mangle}, and {scribble}....
crog /skrog/ vt. [Bell Labs] To damage, trash, or corrupt a data structure.
The list header got scrogged." Also reported as `skrog', and ascribed to the comic strip "The Wizard of Id"....
crog: /skrog/ [Bell Labs] vt. To damage, trash, or corrupt a data structure.
The list header got scrogged." Also reported as `skrog', and ascribed to the comic strip "The Wizard of Id"....
mash the stack n. [C programming] 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....
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....
cribble n. To modify a data structure in a random and unintentionally destructive way.
Bletch! Somebody's disk-compactor program went berserk and scribbled on the i-node table....
cribble: n. To modify a data structure in a random and unintentionally destructive way.
Bletch! Somebody's disk-compactor program went berserk and scribbled on the i-node table....
mung: /muhng/ [in 1960 at MIT, `Mash Until No Good'
ometime after that the derivation from the {{recursive acronym}} `Mung Until No Good' became standard] vt....
clobber vt. To overwrite, usually unintentionally
I walked off the end of the array and clobbered the stack....