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Ash: Vt. To Destroy The Contents Of (said Of A Data Structure).
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:trash: 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}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
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....
crog: /skrog/ [Bell Labs] vt. To damage, trash, or corrupt a data structure.
The list header got scrogged." Also reported as `skrog', and ascribed to the comic strip "The Wizard of Id"....
mangle: vt. Used similarly to {mung} or {scribble}, but more violent in its connotatio
omething that is mangled has been irreversibly and totally trashed....
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....
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....
mung: /muhng/ [in 1960 at MIT, `Mash Until No Good'
ometime after that the derivation from the {{recursive acronym}} `Mung Until No Good' became standard] vt....
clobber: vt. To overwrite, usually unintentionally
I walked off the end of the array and clobbered the stack....
oach: [Bell Labs] vt. To destroy, esp. of a data structure.
Hardware gets {toast}ed or {fried}, software gets roached. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
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....