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fandango on core
n. [Unix/C hackers, from the Iberian dance] In C, a wild pointer that runs
out of bounds, causing a core dump , or corrupts the malloc (3) arena in
out of bounds, causing a core dump, or corrupts the malloc arena in
such a way as to cause mysterious failures later on, is sometimes said to
have done a fandango on core. On low-end personal machines without an MMU
(or Windows boxes, which have an MMU but use it incompetently), this can
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as the cha-cha or the watusi, may be substituted. See aliasing bug,
precedence lossage, smash the stack, memory leak, memory smash, overrun
screw, core.