STACK PUKE


Meaning of STACK PUKE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ 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.

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