nadger

/nad'jr/ [Great Britain] Of software or hardware (not people),

to twiddle some object in a hidden manner, generally so that

it conforms better to some format. For instance, string

printing routines on 8-bit processors often take the string

text from the instruction stream, thus a print call looks like

jsr print:"Hello world"

The print routine has to "nadger" the saved instructionpointer so that the processor doesn't try to execute the text

as instructions when the subroutine returns.

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