stack
= S =
stale pointer bug
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.
--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.