Andrew Burton wrote:
 Is the 0xfeedface ascii or hex?! ;) Was that deliberate or purely accidental, and who was
behind it?
    
It's hex.  It's one of the "usual" hex patterns that
"spell" out words
using only 0-9 and a-f.  Here are a couple of others that I've seen &
used in projects: 0xdeadbeef, 0xc0edbabe.   There are others, but I
don't have them off the top of my head.
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TTFN - Guy