stack 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. On a pipelined machine, this can take a
while.
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stale pointer bug n.
Synonym for aliasing bug
used esp. among microcomputer hackers.