32bit pointers

November 15, 2005 on 10:16 am | In Computer | No Comments

When you’re writing low-level C/C++ code, sometimes you need to mark a pointer to a non-usable address to make debugging easier. Here are some of the possible markings I know of:

0xdeadbeef
0xfeedbabe
0xfeedface

There aren’t many words you can compose using a-f. I like the first one the most.

Update: The one I like the mose is 0xdeadbeef. 0xbadbeef and 0xbadbabe are not good examples because they don’t fill all bits.

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