Found 2 hits - Term: aliasing bug, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)
aliasing bug n. a class of subtle programming errors that can arise in
code that does dynamic allocation, esp. via `malloc3' or equivalent.
if several pointers address `aliases for' a given hunk of storage, it
may happen that the storage is freed or reallocated and thus moved
through one alias and then referenced through another, which may lead to
subtle and possibly intermittent lossage depending on the state and
the allocation history of the malloc arena. avoidable by use of
allocation strategies that never alias allocated core, or by use of
higher-level languages, such as lisp, which employ a garbage collector
see gc. also called a stale pointer bug. see also precedence
lossage, smash the stack, fandango on core, memory leak, memory
smash, overrun screw, spam.
historical note: though this term is nowadays associated with c
programming, it was already in use in a very similar sense in the
algol-60 and fortran communities in the 1960s.
see also:
arena lisp gc stale pointer bug precedence lossage smash the stack
fandango on core memory leak memory smash overrun screw spam
- [2] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
aliasing bug
stale pointer bug
see also:
stale pointer bug
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Bug, definition of term: Bug
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Bug Out, definition of term: Bug Out
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Chinch Bug, definition of term: Chinch Bug
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Bed Bug, definition of term: Bed Bug
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