DEADBEEF

<convention, storage>

/ded-beef/ The hexadecimal pattern used to fill words of freshly allocated memory under a number of IBM environments including the RS/6000; equal to decimal 3,735,928,559 (unsigned) or -559,038,737 (32-bit signed). As in "Your program is DEADBEEF" (meaning gone, aborted, flushed from memory).

Last updated: 1998-06-29

Nearby terms:

DEACON ♦ dead ♦ DEADBEEF ♦ dead code ♦ dead code elimination ♦ dead-drop

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