<
jargon> The place where you put things when your
pdl is
full. If you don't have one and too many things get pushed,
you forget something. The
overflow pdl for a person's memory
might be a memo pad. This usage inspired the following
doggerel:
Hey, diddle, diddle
The
overflow pdl
To get a little more stack;
If that's not enough
Then you lose it all,
And have to pop all the way back.
--The Great Quux
The term
pdl seems to be primarily an
MITism; outside MIT
this term is replaced by "
overflow stack".
(2008-05-30)