Not getting a repeating pattern for garbage value from undefined struct

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This is my first post here I am a zig newbie!

On zigling 038/structs2.zig, the comment reads:

// If you tried running the program without adding Zump as mentioned
// above, you get what appear to be "garbage" values. In debug mode
// (which is the default), Zig writes the repeating pattern "10101010"
// in binary (or 0xAA in hex) to all undefined locations to make them
// easier to spot when debugging.

But when I comment out Zump and compile, I do not get said repeating pattern, I get this output:

Compiling: 038_structs2.zig
Checking: 038_structs2.zig
error:
========= expected this output: ==========
Character 1 - G:20 H:100 XP:10
Character 2 - G:10 H:100 XP:20
========= but found: =====================
Character 1 - G:20 H:100 XP:10
Character 2 - G:2863311530 H:170 XP:2863311530
==========================================

So what am I missing here? I feel like I should see something like:

========= but found: =====================
Character 1 - G:20 H:100 XP:10
Character 2 - G:1010101010 H:101 XP:1010101010
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2863311530 in decimal is 0xAA... repeating in hexadecimal and 0b1010... repeating in binary. If you want to print it out in hexadecimal or binary you can try swapping out the {} (or {d}) format specifiers for {x} or {b} respectively.

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