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From: hartley@uvm-cs.UUCP (Steve)
Newsgroups: net.arch
Subject: Re: uninitialized data
Message-ID: <436@uvm-cs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Sep-85 07:44:03 EDT
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  Laex Colvin asks about an architecture that traps on using uniniitialized
data.  The CDC 6000 series architecture does sort of.  An option to the loader
will cause all data locations to be filled with a bit pattern representing
"indefinite" which the CPU will choke on.
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							Stephen J. Hartley
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