From owner-freebsd-current Fri Apr 14 21:37:00 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id VAA26422 for current-outgoing; Fri, 14 Apr 1995 21:37:00 -0700 Received: from aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.248]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA26416 for ; Fri, 14 Apr 1995 21:36:57 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA05455; Sat, 15 Apr 1995 12:37:10 +0800 Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 12:37:09 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao To: FREEBSD-CURRENT-L Subject: Re: Interesting (and odd) effect in -current In-Reply-To: <199504150214.TAA02308@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 14 Apr 1995, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > > I agree, but I think clearing memory has other merits. > > Yes, setting it to 0xDeadBeef is a very good idea, that way you > can find out some times when you pick up a wild pointer by the > value in it :-). Will the FreeBSD Project pay for psychiatric treatment for those who suffer debilitating AIX flashbacks because of this? :) -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org