Overflow - Computing and Telecommunications

Computing and Telecommunications

  • Buffer overflow, a situation whereby the incoming data size exceeds that which can be accommodated by a buffer
  • Stack overflow in which a computer program makes too many subroutine calls and its call stack runs out of space
  • Heap overflow
  • Arithmetic overflow, a condition that occurs when a calculation produces a result that is greater than what a given register can store or represent
  • Overflow condition, a situation that occurs when more information is being transmitted than the hardware can handle
  • 0verflow, a Japanese eroge developer
  • Overflow (software), a NASA-developed computational fluid dynamics program using overset (Chimera) grids
  • Overflow, more commonly known as overspill, a proof technique in non-standard analysis

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