6 Feb
2002
6 Feb
'02
3:12 p.m.
At 07:56 PM 2/6/02 -0500, you wrote:
It was thus said that the Great Cini, Richard once
stated:
My favorite bogus fill value/return code (because it is obvious, not
because it traps if executed) is 0xDEADBEEF.
And to make it on topic, I've been using that value for more than 10 years.
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Jim Battle == frustum(a)pacbell.net
When in the MSVC debugger, the undeclared variable has the value
0xcccccccc. OK.
...
#ifdef MIPS
# define PADDING 0xB1
# define NULLP 0xB1B1B1B1
#elif defined I386
# define PADDING 0xCC
# define NULLP 0xCCCCCCCC
#elif defined MC68K
# define PADDING 0xA1
# define NULLP 0xA1A1A1A1
#elif defined RS6000
# define PADDING 0xB1
# define NULLP 0xB1B1B1B1
#else
# error Please define system
#endif