[m-rev.] trivial diff: agc: overwrite garbage with 0xDEADBEAF

[Fergus Henderson]

On 05-Jun-2002, Ralph Becket <rafe at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> Fergus Henderson, Tuesday,  4 June 2002:
> > Estimated hours taken: 0.1
> > 
> > runtime/mercury_accurate_gc.c:
> > 	When clearing the old heap entries, use a recognizable value
> > 	(0xDEADBEAF), rather than 1, which is easily mistaken for live data.
> 
> 0xDEADBEEF, surely?

You're spelin'z better than mine.

But now that it's done that way, I'll leave it.
The exact value doesn't really matter, just that it be recognizable.

Maybe we should change it to 0xDEAD4AGC ;-)

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