yeah, I've read this blog post before, and this bit has always stunk to me. The pattern might be 0xDADADADA, 0xCAFEBABE, or 0xDEADBEEF. But it seems perfectly

yeah, I've read this blog post before, and this bit has always stunk to me. The pattern might be 0xDADADADA, 0xCAFEBABE, or 0xDEADBEEF. But it seems perfectly reasonable to ask what one might use this for. In fact, you'll find 0xDEADBEEF in the man page for libgmalloc. (and all of the replies are about "raw memory" debugging... wtf)