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From: "Wayne K. Werner" <wkwerner@con2.com>
Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.programming.codewarrior
Subject: Re: System memory
Date: 13 Aug 1997 01:21:19 GMT
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eli curtz <gromit@halcyon.com> wrote:
> "Wayne K. Werner" <wkwerner@con2.com> wrote:

> > (I have often seen the value 0x0BADBEEF used, as it is very easy to see
in a hex dump.)
>
> Everything Wayne said was good except the prefered value for this is
> 0xDEADBEEF... (at least in the mac world)    :^)
> 
Right you are!  I was remembering incorrectly back to my days of using
mungwall on the Amiga (it actually patched the exec library alloc and free
to use walls, and scream bloody murder if you violated them).

Oh well, no matter how you slice it, it's still deceased cow.

(__)
|oo|
 \/ 

-- 
Wayne K. Werner
wkwerner@con2.com