FREEBEEF sounds good to me. Dead or alive doesn't matter to me. Dave Potter's dad owned balogna factory. Dave new all about dead beef. Anyway thanks for being patient with my off topic posts.
Gotta go. - Paul Hanrahan -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Zitzelberger Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 10:14 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Dead Beef IIRC the Amiga did the same... On Aug 22, 2005, at 9:19 PM, Charles Mills wrote: > Okay, while we're wasting time here anyway <g> I've got a question. > Why > x'DEADBEEF'? > > I recall that on AIX on the RS/6000, that was what the OS filled > unallocated memory with. If you referenced un-initialized malloc > ("GETMAIN") storage, you got dead beef, rather than 0. Kind of a cool > feature - more recognizable for debugging than an unintended 0. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
