dead beef

Q: What is dead beef?

A memory address used by programmers to help them debug. It is a 32 bit hex value.

Example:

0xDEADBEEF

Each hex, takes up 4 bits.

Depending on the system, it can mean different things. One system may say, you've dead lock issue if you get this error. Another might put out this error if you have memory corruption, or access a word at the wrong boundary, etc.