crock
[American scatologism "crock of shit"] 1. An awkward feature or programming technique that ought to be made cleaner. For e XAmple, using small integers to represent error codes without the program interpreting them to the user (as in, for e XAmple, Unix "make(1)", which returns code 139 for a process that dies due to segfault). 2. A technique that works acceptably, but which is quite prone to failure if disturbed in the least. For e XAmple, a too-clever programmer might write an assembler which mapped instruction mnemonics to numeric opcodes algorithmically, a trick which depends far too intimately on the particular bit patterns of the opcodes. (For another e XAmple of programming with a dependence on actual opcode values, see The Story of Mel.) Many crocks have a tightly woven, almost completely unmodifiable structure. See kluge, brittle. The adjectives "crockish" and "crocky", and the nouns "crockishness" and "crockitude", are also used. [ Jargon File] In addition suitable contents: [ 2 ] [ = ] [ accept ] [ ad ] [ ai ] [ al ] [ algorithm ] [ am ] [ an ] [ app ] [ ar ] [ arc ] [ arg ] [ as ] [ assembler ] [ at ] [ au ] [ av ] [ aw ] [ awk ] [ b ] [ be ] [ bi ] [ bit ] [ bit pattern ] [ br ] [ brittle ] [ ca ] [ cat ] [ cc ] [ ch ] [ ck ] [ cl ] [ clean ] [ co ] [ code ] [ codes ] [ com ] [ complete ] [ cr ] [ cu ] [ de ] [ die ] [ dj ] [ du ] [ ec ] [ ed ] [ ee ] [ eg ] [ er ] [ error ] [ es ] [ et ] [ failure ] [ fault ] [ feature ] [ fi ] [ file ] [ fo ] [ for ] [ ge ] [ gf ] [ gh ] [ gi ] [ gr ] [ h ] [ hat ] [ hit ] [ hm ] [ hn ] [ hr ] [ ht ] [ id ] [ ie ] [ il ] [ in ] [ instruction mnemonic ] [ int ] [ integer ] [ io ] [ iq ] [ is ] [ it ] [ J ] [ Jargon File ] [ ke ] [ ki ] [ kit ] [ kluge ] [ kw ] [ ky ] [ la ] [ Lex ] [ ls ] [ lt ] [ lu ] [ ly ] [ M ] [ ma ] [ mall ] [ map ] [ Mel ] [ mm ] [ mn ] [ mnemonic ] [ mo ] [ mod ] [ module ] [ mp ] [ na ] [ nc ] [ ne ] [ ng ] [ ni ] [ no ] [ ns ] [ nu ] [ om ] [ op ] [ pa ] [ pe ] [ ph ] [ pl ] [ pr ] [ process ] [ program ] [ programmer ] [ programming ] [ pron ] [ pt ] [ query ] [ rc ] [ re ] [ ro ] [ ru ] [ S ] [ sc ] [ se ] [ segfault ] [ sh ] [ si ] [ sm ] [ so ] [ st ] [ Story of Mel ] [ struct ] [ T ] [ th ] [ to ] [ tr ] [ tt ] [ ua ] [ ug ] [ um ] [ us ] [ user ] [ va ] [ value ] [ ve ] [ write ]
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