6 Feb
2002
6 Feb
'02
10:22 a.m.
It was thus said that the Great "Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" once stated:
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, John Chris Wren wrote:
C allows the *pointer* to exceed the limit by one element, but not to
*dereference* said pointer.
-spc (Well, dereferencing such a behavior invokes (I think) undefined
behavior)
Or it would possibly cause a segfault, since A
can only be legally indexed
by 0..9. (This is assuming it didn't get optimized out).
No. In C, that is actually NOT considered an error by the language! It's
"bad form", but permitted by the language to use array notation to access
memory locations that were NOT allocated to the array!