baadf00d!

Posted on October 26, 2008 by willwm| Leave a comment

Came across this while debugging a program today in Eclipse:

0xbaadf00d

0xBAADF00D : Used by Microsoft‘s LocalAlloc(LMEM_FIXED) to mark uninitialised allocated heap memory

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_(programming)#Magic_debug_values)

…I very obviously forgot to initialize one of my variables. ;-)

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