DEADBEEF
/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)