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When running the debugger (dbx), you may have wondered what the 'deadbeef' is you occasionally see in registers. Do note, that 0xdeadbeef is a hexadecimal number that also happens to be some kind of word (the RS/6000 was built in Texas!), and this hexadecimal number is simply put into unused registers at some time, probably during program startup.
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