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Re:Rename GTFO to GOAWAY by Crito on Tuesday January 28, 2014 @03:45PM (#7139582)
I can see how 0xCAFEBABE might cause issues in the modern tech community, but 0xDEADBEEF? Do they just hate hexspeak in general?
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Re:Rename GTFO to GOAWAY by gaius on Tuesday January 28, 2014 @03:57PM (#7139661)
Vegans.

I'll wager someone out there, perhaps unwittingly, has 0xDEADBABE in their binary, God help them if the twitterati finds out.

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Re:Rename GTFO to GOAWAY by duggan on Tuesday January 28, 2014 @04:54PM (#7140036)
>> 0xDEADBABE ("Dead Babe") is used by IBM Jikes RVM as a sanity check of the stack of the primary thread

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexspeak#cite_note-13

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Re:Rename GTFO to GOAWAY by Crito on Tuesday January 28, 2014 @05:14PM (#7140168)
Heh, maybe. I'd be interested to know if there have ever been any documented cases of vegans actually being offended by 0xDEADBEEF (in anything other than a joking way). Seems like something that is only 'hypothetically offensive'.
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