A guard byte is a part of computer program's memory that helps software developers find buffer overflows while developing the program.
Famous quotes containing the word guard:
“It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be.”
—James Baldwin (1924–1987)