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smashes the stack

smashes the stack is the third-person singular simple present indicative of smash the stack.

Meaning of smash the stack

Verb

smash the stack (third-person singular simple present smashes the stack, present participle smashing the stack, simple past and past participle smashed the stack)

  1. (informal) To corrupt the call stack, causing execution to jump to a random address, sometimes used as a malicious attack on a system.
    • There's something interesting about this approach — we haven't smashed the stack, so some mechanisms that might guard the stack won't notice...2003, Michael Howard, David LeBlanc, Writing Secure Code

Questions about smashes the stack

What is smashes the stack the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Smashes the stack is the third-person singular simple present indicative of smash the stack.

Words near smashes the stack in the dictionary

  1. smashes and grabs
  2. smashes down
  3. smashes it
  4. smashes someone's face in
  5. smashes someone's head
  6. smashes the stack
  7. smashes up
  8. smashie
  9. smashies
  10. smashin'
  11. smashing

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