资料来源 : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

fandango on core
     
        (Unix/C, from the Mexican dance) In {C}, a wild pointer that
        runs out of bounds, causing a {core dump}, or corrupts the
        {malloc} {arena} in such a way as to cause mysterious failures
        later on, is sometimes said to have "done a fandango on core".
        On low-end personal machines without an {MMU}, this can
        corrupt the {operating system} itself, causing massive
        lossage.  Other frenetic dances such as the rhumba, cha-cha,
        or watusi, may be substituted.
     
        See {aliasing bug}, {precedence lossage}, {smash the stack},
        {memory leak}, {memory smash}, {overrun screw}, {core}.
     
        [{Jargon File}]
     
        (1994-12-16)