FANDANGO ON CORE
\fandˈaŋɡə͡ʊ ˌɒn kˈɔː], \fandˈaŋɡəʊ ˌɒn kˈɔː], \f_a_n_d_ˈa_ŋ_ɡ_əʊ ˌɒ_n k_ˈɔː]\
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(Unix/C, from the Mexican dance) In C,a wild pointer that runs out of bounds, causing a core dump,or corrupts the malloc arena in such a way as to causemysterious failures later on, is sometimes said to have "donea fandango on core". On low-end personal machines without anMMU, this can corrupt the operating system itself, causingmassive lossage. Other frenetic dances such as the rhumba,cha-cha, or watusi, may be substituted.See aliasing bug, precedence lossage, smash the stack,memory leak, memory smash, overrun screw, core.
By Denis Howe
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