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• 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&...
• 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)....
• The final lesson of Viet Nam is that no great nation can long afford to be sundered by a memory.
  -- George Bush, 1989 Inaugural Addre...
• Attitude adjustments $29.95. Alignment extra.
• Gun Control = Breathing, sight alignment, trigger control
• Only adventurers of evil alignment think of killing their dog.
• What alignment am I? Chaotic-confused!
• memory leak n. An error in a program's dynamic-store allocation logic that causes it to fail to reclaim discarded memory, leading to eventual collapse due to memory exhaustion.
  Also (esp. at CMU) called core leak. These problems were severe on older machines with small, fixed-size address spaces, and special "leak detection" tools were commonly written to root them out....
• I had my car's alignment checked. It's chaotic evil!