DEADBEEF
\dˈɛdbiːf], \dˈɛdbiːf], \d_ˈɛ_d_b_iː_f]\
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/ded-beef/ The hexadecimal patternused to fill words of freshly allocated memory under a numberof IBM environments including the RS/6000; equal todecimal 3,735,928,559 (unsigned) or -559,038,737 (32-bitsigned). As in "Your program is DEADBEEF" (meaning gone,aborted, flushed from memory).
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