Showing posts with label Debug coding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Debug coding. Show all posts

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Crazy stuff in some logging

Doing some troubleshooting on a (Altiris) PXE server i found a weird line of code in a log:
 
 
i did a search and found this:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dead%3Abeef  apparently this line of code is used in IPv6 communication
this also has another meaning: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_%28programming%29#Magic_debug_values apparently these codes were used in IBM RS6000 and the Original MAC OS. could this be some code was re-used? ...