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Clobber Vt. To Overwrite, Usually Unintentionally
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clobber vt.
To overwrite, usually unintentionally: "I
walked off the end of the array and clobbered the stack." Compare
mung, scribble, trash, and
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clobber: vt. To overwrite, usually unintentionally
I walked off the end of the array and clobbered the stack....
walk off the end of vt. To run past the end of an array, list, or medium after stepping through it -- a good way to land in trouble.
Often the result of an off-by-one error. Compare clobber, roach, smash the stack...
omp on vt. To inadvertently overwrite something important, usually automatically.
All the work I did this weekend got stomped on last night by the nightly server script....
walk off the end of: vt. To run past the end of an array, list, or medium after stepping through it --- a good way to land in trouble.
Often the result of an {off-by-one error}. Compare {clobber}, {roach}, {smash the stack}....
omp on: vt. To inadvertently overwrite something important, usually automatically.
All the work I did this weekend got stomped on last night by the nightly server script....
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....
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....
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....