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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>memory smash</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="memory-leak.html" title="memory leak"/><link rel="next" href="menuitis.html" title="menuitis"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">memory smash</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="memory-leak.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="menuitis.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="memory-smash"/><dt xmlns="" id="memory-smash"><b>memory smash</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [XEROX PARC] Writing through a pointer that doesn't point to what
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you think it does. This occasionally reduces your memory to a rubble of
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bits. Note that this is subtly different from (and more general than)
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related terms such as a <a href="memory-leak.html"><i class="glossterm">memory leak</i></a> or
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