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> OpenBSD uses 0xdb to fill newly allocated memory and 0xdf to fill memory upon being freed. This helps developers catch "use-before-initialization" (seeing 0xdb) and "use-after-free" (seeing 0xdf) bugs quickly.

Looks like this is the default in OpenBSD.





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