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    [C programming] n. On many C implementations it is possible to corrupt the execution stack by writing past the end of an array declared... VIEW ENTIRE DEFINITION


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    dink

    /dink/ n. Said of a machine that has the bitty box nature; a machine too small to be worth bothering with --- sometimes the system you're currently forced to work on. First heard from an MIT hacker working on a CP/M system with 64K, in reference to any 6502 system, then from fans of 32-bit architectures about 16-bit machines. "GNUMACS will never work on that dink machine." Probably derived from mainstream `dinky', which isn't sufficiently pejorative.