nadger

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

  nadger
  
     /nad'jr/ [Great Britain] Of software or hardware (not people),
     to twiddle some object in a hidden manner, generally so that
     it conforms better to some format.  For instance, string
     printing routines on 8-bit processors often take the string
     text from the instruction stream, thus a print call looks like
  
     	jsr print:"Hello world"
  
     The print routine has to "nadger" the saved instruction pointer
      so that the processor doesn't try to execute the text
     as instructions when the subroutine returns.
  
     [Jargon File]
  

nadger - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  nadger
   /nad'jr/, v.
  
     [UK, from rude slang noun nadgers for testicles; compare American &
     British bollixed] Of software or hardware (not people), to twiddle
     some object in a hidden manner, generally so that it conforms better
     to some format. For instance, string printing routines on 8-bit
     processors often take the string text from the instruction stream,
     thus a print call looks like jsr print:"Hello world". The print
     routine has to nadger the saved instruction pointer so that the
     processor doesn't try to execute the text as instructions when the
     subroutine returns. See adger.