Once a site becomes inactive, subsequent owners may not even know of its prior use.

如果处理场地闲置一段时期，以后的业主甚至不了解此场地先前的用途。

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Therefore, subsequent, uninitialized stack variables that happen to use the same stack area can return values left over from the prior use of this stack memory.

因此，恰好在随后使用相同堆栈区域的未初始化堆栈变量就可能返回上次使用该堆栈内存时留下的值。

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The firm I wanted to use had prior commitments.

我选择的那家公司有优先承诺。

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So if you're coming from prior background, your code might work a little differently on a different system if you don't use those flags.

如果你来自一个先前的背景，如果你们没有使用这个版本标志的话，在一个不同的系统中,你的代码可能运行地不太一样。

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The patent was later withdrawn after Indian scientists produced evidence of centuries of prior use, but many similar patents are pending approval.

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Water quality issues also create risk for companies, from stricter pollution standards on their own effluent to other entities polluting water upstream, requiring them to clean up water prior to use.

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Enter the Automatic Link -- a simplistic nub that plugs into said port and utilizes Bluetooth 4.0 to connect to your iPhone 4S or 5 (prior iPhones use older versions of the BT stack).

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