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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>stack puke</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="stack.html" title="stack"/><link rel="next" href="stale-pointer-bug.html" title="stale pointer bug"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">stack puke</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="stack.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="stale-pointer-bug.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="stack-puke"/><dt xmlns="" id="stack-puke"><b>stack puke</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Some processor architectures are said to &#8216;puke their guts onto
the stack&#8217; to save their internal state during exception processing.
The Motorola 68020, for example, regurgitates up to 92 bytes on a bus
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