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  2. Buffer overflow - Wikipedia

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    Visualization of a software buffer overflow. Data is written into A, but is too large to fit within A, so it overflows into B.. In programming and information security, a buffer overflow or buffer overrun is an anomaly whereby a program writes data to a buffer beyond the buffer's allocated memory, overwriting adjacent memory locations.

  3. Serialization - Wikipedia

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    Flow diagram. In computing, serialization (or serialisation, also referred to as pickling in Python) is the process of translating a data structure or object state into a format that can be stored (e.g. files in secondary storage devices, data buffers in primary storage devices) or transmitted (e.g. data streams over computer networks) and reconstructed later (possibly in a different computer ...

  4. Comparison of data-serialization formats - Wikipedia

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    "S-Expressions" Archived 2013-10-07 at the Wayback Machine Internet Draft: Yes, canonical representation: Yes, advanced transport representation: No No — Smile: Tatu Saloranta JSON: No Smile Format Specification: Yes No Yes Partial (JSON Schema Proposal, other JSON schemas/IDLs) Partial (via JSON APIs implemented with Smile backend, on ...

  5. Data structure alignment - Wikipedia

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    In this context, a byte is the smallest unit of memory access, i.e. each memory address specifies a different byte. An n-byte aligned address would have a minimum of log 2 (n) least-significant zeros when expressed in binary. The alternate wording b-bit aligned designates a b/8 byte aligned address (ex. 64-bit aligned is 8 bytes aligned).

  6. Magic number (programming) - Wikipedia

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    That is, the exec() service read the executable file header data into a kernel space buffer, but read the executable image into user space, thereby not using the constant's branching feature. Magic number creation was implemented in the Unix linker and loader and magic number branching was probably still used in the suite of stand-alone ...

  7. Bit array - Wikipedia

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    A bit array (also known as bitmask, [1] bit map, bit set, bit string, or bit vector) is an array data structure that compactly stores bits. It can be used to implement a simple set data structure. A bit array is effective at exploiting bit-level parallelism in hardware to perform operations quickly.

  8. Free Lossless Image Format - Wikipedia

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    The format supports an optional alpha channel like PNG (but unlike JPEG); and progressive coding, similar to PNG (unlike it, progressive compression doesn't increase file-size), but as FLIF's algorithm is more complex (and partly, may not have had as much tuning of the implementation yet), it has a higher computational cost; at least lower ...

  9. Array (data structure) - Wikipedia

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    Thus, if the array is seen as a function on a set of possible index combinations, it is the dimension of the space of which its domain is a discrete subset. Thus a one-dimensional array is a list of data, a two-dimensional array is a rectangle of data, [12] a three-dimensional array a block of data, etc.