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).

(1998-06-29)