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• decay: [from nuclear physics] n.,vi. An automatic conversion which is applied to most array-valued expressions in {C}
  hey `decay into' pointer-valued expressions pointing to the array's first element....
• ided /stri:'d*d/ adj. [scientific computing] Said of a sequence of memory reads and writes to addresse
  each of which is separated from the last by a constant interval called the `stride length'....
• ided: /str:'d*d/ [scientific computing] adj. Said of a sequence of memory reads and writes to addresse
  each of which is separated from the last by a constant interval called the `stride length'....
• ANSI /an'see/ 1. n. [techspeak] The American National Standards Institute.
  ANSI, along with the International Organization for Standards (ISO), standardized the C programming language (see K&...
• vaxocentrism /vak`soh-sen'trizm/ n. [analogy with `ethnocentrism'] A notional disease said to afflict C programmers who persist in coding according to certain assumptions that are valid (esp.
  under Unix) on VAXen but false elsewhere. Among these are...
• bit decay n. See bit rot. People with a physics background tend to prefer this variant for the analogy with particle decay.
  See also computron, quantum bogodynamic...
• 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....
• 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...