memory smash

2 definitions found

memory smash - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  memory smash
  
     <jargon> A Xerox PARC term for writing to the location
     addressed by a dangling pointer.
  
     [Jargon File]
  
     (1994-11-02)
  

memory smash - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  memory smash
   n.
  
     [XEROX PARC] Writing through a pointer that doesn't point to what you
     think it does. This occasionally reduces your memory to a rubble of
     bits. Note that this is subtly different from (and more general than)
     related terms such as a memory leak or fandango on core because
  it
     doesn't imply an allocation error or overrun condition.