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• branch to Fishkill n. [IBM: from the location of one of the corporation's facilities] Any unexpected jump in a program that produces catastrophic or just plain weird results.
  See jump off into ne...
• jump off into never-never land: [from J. M. Barrie's "Peter Pan"] v.
  Same as {branch to Fishkill}, but more common in technical cultures associated with non-IBM computers that use the term `jump' rather than `branch'....
• hyperspace: /hi:'per-spays/ n. A memory location that is *far* away from where the program counter should be pointing, often inaccessible because it is not even mapped in.
  Another core dump --- looks like the program jumped off to hyperspace somehow....
• jump off into never-never land v. [from J. M. Barrie's "Peter Pan"] Same as branch to Fishkill
  but more common in technical cultures associated with non-IBM computers that use the term `jump' rather than `branch'....
• weeds: n. 1. Refers to development projects or algorithms that have no possible relevance or practical application.
  Comes from `off in the weeds'. Used in phrases like "lexical analysis for microcode is serious weeds....
• hyperspace /hi:'per-spays/ n. A memory location that is far away from where the program counter should be pointing
  especially a place that is inaccessible because it is not even mapped in by the virtual-memory system....
• deep space: n. 1. Describes the notional location of any program that has gone {off the trolley}.
  Esp. used of programs that just sit there silently grinding long after either failure or some output is expected....
• footprint: n. 1. The floor or desk area taken up by a piece of hardware.
  2. [IBM] The audit trail (if any) left by a crashed program (often in plural, `footprints')....
• 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....