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0xCDCDCDCD

MSVC uninitialized heap (CRT)

category
sentinel
normalized
cdcdcdcd
confirmed
2026-05-20
lookups
1
source
https://learn.microsoft.com/cpp/c-runtime-library/crt-debug-heap-details

Fill pattern the Microsoft Visual C++ debug CRT writes to freshly allocated, uninitialized heap memory. Its stack-memory sibling is 0xCCCCCCCC.

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