Comment Re:0xDEAD BEEF (Score 1) 623
That's not a Windows creation.
That sounds like a Microsoft programmer that used to work for IBM. Long before Microsoft existed, IBM used to initialize all of the memory on their mainframes to 0xDEADBEEF so that when you got a crash dump and you saw that in a register, you knew you had an uninitialized variable somewhere. Fun and pragmatic at the same time. Gotta love it.
That sounds like a Microsoft programmer that used to work for IBM. Long before Microsoft existed, IBM used to initialize all of the memory on their mainframes to 0xDEADBEEF so that when you got a crash dump and you saw that in a register, you knew you had an uninitialized variable somewhere. Fun and pragmatic at the same time. Gotta love it.
