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• loose bytes n. Commonwealth hackish term for the padding bytes or shims many compilers insert between members of a record or structure to cope with alignment requirements imposed by the machine architecture.
• him: n. A small piece of data inserted in order to achieve a desired memory alignment or other addressing property.
  For example, the PDP-11 UNIX linker, in split I&D (instructions and data) mode, inserts a two-byte shim at location 0 in data space so that no data object will have an address of 0 (and be confused with the C null pointer)....
• him n. A small piece of data inserted in order to achieve a desired memory alignment or other addressing property.
  For example, the PDP-11 Unix linker, in split I&...
• green bytes: n. (also `green words') 1. Meta-information embedded in a file, such as the length of the file or its name
  as opposed to keeping such information in a separate description file or record....
• hammer: vt. Commonwealth hackish syn. for {bang on}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• little-endian: adj. Describes a computer architecture in which, within a given 16- or 32-bit word, bytes at lower addresses have lower significance (the word is stored `little-end-first').
  The PDP-11 and VAX families of computers and Intel microprocessors and a lot of communications and networking hardware are little-endian....
• plingnet: /pling'net/ n. Syn. {UUCPNET}. Also see {{Commonwealth Hackish}}, which uses `pling' for {bang} (as in {bang path}).
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• ack puke: n. Some processor architectures are said to `puke their guts onto the stack' to save their internal state during exception processing.
  The Motorola 68020, for example, regurgitates up to 92 bytes on a bus fault....
• Machine Coders do it in bytes.