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Re: [Xen-devel] Deadbeef



No, Xen poisons stack frames with 0xdeadbeef in debug builds to try to
detect use-after-clobbered bugs. It's only actually a bug if it causes
something to go wrong!

 -- Keir

On 2/10/08 15:46, "John McDermott (U.S. Navy Employee)"
<john.mcdermott@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Is it the case that we should never see 0xdeadbeef in a stack trace,
> even if everything otherwise appears OK?
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