Pointer please

[Marcus Müller]

Hi all,

I'm currently facing a non-trivial problem with the current Objective-C 
runtime on FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT. The problem popped up when trying to 
create a native port of OGo (http://www.opengroupware.org) to FreeBSD. 
Specifically, certain returned memory should be nil (0), but in fact is 
0xd0d0d0d0.

I don't know what this pattern stands for, could that be some memory 
marked as being freed previously? I grepped the FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT 
sources but the only valid code reference I came across that seems to 
deal with the same kind of problem is in 
/usr/src/sys/geom/geom_subr.c:514:

KASSERT(cp != (void*)0xd0d0d0d0, ("ARGH!"));

I have no idea what this is all about, I can only guess that it has to 
do with previously freed memory. Any hint (or pointer to a better 
suited mailing list) is appreciated.

TIA,

   Marcus

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