STACK PUKE
\stˈak pjˈuːk], \stˈak pjˈuːk], \s_t_ˈa_k p_j_ˈuː_k]\
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Some processor architectures are said to "puke their guts ontothe stack" to save their internal state during exceptionprocessing. The Motorola 68020, for example, regurgitatesup to 92 bytes on a bus fault. On a pipelined machine,this can take a while.
By Denis Howe
