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susi22 on Oct 23, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Deep C and C++ (2011)

MS Visual C initializes it to 0xCCCC so it's easy to spot. It helped me find a few errors.

quasque on Oct 23, 2013 [–]

Also 0xCC is the breakpoint opcode (INT3) on x86 architecture, so if the program were to start executing at that point, the debugger would be notified (or probably an immediate application crash if no debugger attached).

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