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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>overrun screw</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="../O.html" title="O"/><link rel="previous" href="overrun.html" title="overrun"/><link rel="next" href="owned.html" title="owned"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">overrun screw</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="overrun.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">O</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="owned.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="overrun-screw"/><dt xmlns="" id="overrun-screw"><b>overrun screw</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [C programming] A variety of <a href="../F/fandango-on-core.html"><i class="glossterm">fandango on core</i></a>
produced by scribbling past the end of an array (C implementations
typically have no checks for this error). This is relatively benign and
easy to spot if the array is static; if it is auto, the result may be to
<a href="../S/smash-the-stack.html"><i class="glossterm">smash the stack</i></a> &#8212; often resulting in
<a href="../H/heisenbug.html"><i class="glossterm">heisenbug</i></a>s of the most diabolical subtlety. The
term <span class="firstterm">overrun screw</span> is used esp. of
scribbles beyond the end of arrays allocated with
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">malloc</span>(3)</span>;
this typically trashes the allocation header for the next block in the
<a href="../A/arena.html"><i class="glossterm">arena</i></a>, producing massive lossage within malloc and
often a core dump on the next operation to use
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">stdio</span>(3)</span>
or
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">malloc</span>(3)</span>
itself. See <a href="../S/spam.html"><i class="glossterm">spam</i></a>, <a href="overrun.html"><i class="glossterm">overrun</i></a>;
see also <a href="../M/memory-leak.html"><i class="glossterm">memory leak</i></a>,
<a href="../M/memory-smash.html"><i class="glossterm">memory smash</i></a>, <a href="../A/aliasing-bug.html"><i class="glossterm">aliasing bug</i></a>,
<a href="../P/precedence-lossage.html"><i class="glossterm">precedence lossage</i></a>,
<a href="../F/fandango-on-core.html"><i class="glossterm">fandango on core</i></a>, <a href="../S/secondary-damage.html"><i class="glossterm">secondary damage</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="overrun.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../O.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="owned.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">overrun </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> owned</td></tr></table></div></body></html>