nadger
:nadger: /nad'jr/ v. [UK, from rude slang noun `nadgers' for testicles;
compare American & British `bollixed'] Of software or hardware (not
people), to twiddle some object in a hidden manner, generally so that it
conforms better to some format. For instance, string printing routines
on 8-bit processors often take the string text 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 text as instructions when the
subroutine returns. See adger
Jargon File Version 4.3.1, 29 JUN 2001 =
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