Screen shot of a header file showing a "magic" hex constant "0xdefec8ted" used in Solaris as the magic number identifying crash dump files.

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   Michael Engel (me_@sueden.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Sep-2023 06:37:34 JST Michael Engel

   We all know "hexspeak" magic hexadecimal constants used in #Unix code such as 0xdeadbeef or 0xcafebabe (magic number for universal Mach-O files as well as Java class files). This one found by Colin Gordon during an internship in the #Solaris team at #Sun Microsystems in 2007 was new to me... (/usr/src/uts/common/sys/dumphdr.h)

   Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20091120220224/http://blogs.sun.com:80/csg/