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  • register dancing
    n. Many older processor architectures suffer from a serious shortage of general-purpose registers. This is especially a problem for compiler-writers, because their generatedVIEW ENTIRE DEFINITION


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    winged comments

    n. Comments set on the same line as code, as opposed to boxed comments. In C, for example

    d = sqrt(x*x + y*y); /* distance from origin */

    Generally these refer only to the action(s) taken on that line.