obliterate

KlausO oberhofer at users.sf.net
Tue Nov 12 23:16:39 PST 2013


Am 13.11.2013 02:21, schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu:
> On 11/12/13 5:10 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>>> * Pointers and class references: size_t.max - 65_535, i.e. 64K below
>>> the upper memory limit. On all systems I know it can be safely assumed
>>> that that area will cause GPF when accessed.
>>
>> Make that value odd. That will also guarantee a GPF on systems where
>> unaligned pointer access is forbidden.
>
> Ha, I missed that. Nice!
>
> Andrei
>

The classics:

0xFFFFDEAD   dead
0xFFFFD1ED   died

Not so obvious:

0xFFFFFA1D   failed
0xFFFFACED   (the result makes you dumb) faced
0xFFFFFEED   don't feed me with this
0xFFFFDF0F   don't follow (this pointer) or (you are) f*****



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