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econd-system effect n.
econdary damage n. When a fatal error occurs (esp.
a segfault) the immediate cause may be that a pointer has been trashed due to a previous fandango on core....
ecurity through obscurity (alt.
SED /S-E-D/ n. [TMRC, from `Light-Emitting Diode'] Smoke-emitting diode.
A friode that lost the war. See also LER....
egfault n.,vi. Syn. segment, segmentation fault.
eggie /seg'ee/ n. [Unix] Shorthand for segmentation fault reported from Britain.
egment /seg'ment/ vi. To experience a segmentation fault.
Confusingly, this is often pronounced more like `segment' than like mainstream v....
egmentation fault n. [Unix] 1. [techspeak] An error in which a running program attempts to access memory not allocated to it and core dumps with a segmentation violation error.
This is o...
egv /seg'vee/ n.,vi. Yet another synonym for segmentation fault (actually, in this case, `segmentation violation').
elf-reference n. See self-reference.

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