nadger

nadger

/nad'jr/ [Great Britain] Of software or hardware (not people),to twiddle some object in a hidden manner, generally so thatit conforms better to some format. For instance, stringprinting routines on 8-bit processors often take the stringtext from the instruction stream, thus a print call looks like

jsr print:"Hello world"

The print routine has to "nadger" the saved instruction pointer so that the processor doesn't try to execute the textas instructions when the subroutine returns.