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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>nadger</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../N.html" title="N"/><link rel="previous" href="N.html" title="N"/><link rel="next" href="nagware.html" title="nagware"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">nadger</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="N.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">N</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="nagware.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="nadger"/><dt xmlns="" id="nadger"><b>nadger</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/nad<61>jr/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">v.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [UK, from rude slang noun <span class="firstterm">nadgers</span> for testicles; compare American &
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British <span class="firstterm">bollixed</span>] Of software or
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hardware (not people), to twiddle some object in a hidden manner, generally
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so that it conforms better to some format. For instance, string printing
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routines on 8-bit processors often take the string text from the
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instruction stream, thus a print call looks like <b class="command">jsr
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print:"Hello world"</b>. The print routine has to <span class="firstterm">nadger</span> the saved instruction pointer so that
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the processor doesn't try to execute the text as instructions when the
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subroutine returns. See <a href="../A/adger.html"><i class="glossterm">adger</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="N.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="nagware.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">N<EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>nagware</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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