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Clobber: Vt. To Overwrite, Usually Unintentionally
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:clobber: vt. To overwrite, usually unintentionally: "I walked off
the end of the array and clobbered the stack." Compare {mung},
{scribble}, {trash}, and {smash the stack}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
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clobber vt. To overwrite, usually unintentionally
I walked off the end of the array and clobbered the stack....
walk off the end of: vt. To run past the end of an array, list, or medium after stepping through it --- a good way to land in trouble.
Often the result of an {off-by-one error}. Compare {clobber}, {roach}, {smash the stack}....
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....
walk off the end of vt. To run past the end of an array, list, or medium after stepping through it -- a good way to land in trouble.
Often the result of an off-by-one error. Compare clobber, roach, smash the stack...
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....
mash the stack n. [C programming] 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....
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}....
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....
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....