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Posts tagged undefined-behavior

The unpredictable outcome of compiling or executing a program caused by breaking a language rule that is not enforced at compile or runtime.

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Q&A Can I access an array element from a pointer to an object contiguous with but outside the array?

C prohibits accessing an array out of bounds even if measures were taken to ensure that what should lie outside those bounds were known: struct MyStruct { int x[2]; int y, z; }; static...

1 answer  ·  posted 24d ago by CPlus‭  ·  last activity 22d ago by Lundin‭

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Q&A Behavior of Pointer Arithmetic on the Stack

Consider the following code: #include <stdio.h> int main() { int a = 5; int b; ++*(&b + 1); printf("%d\n", a); return 0; } The output is as expected: 6 ...

4 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Josh Hyatt‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A Why can't we mix increment operators like i++ with other operators?

I'm experimenting with different operators and have a hard time understanding the outcome of certain expressions. I try to combine the ++ operators with other operators such as assignment in the sa...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Lundin‭

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Q&A What is undefined behavior and how does it work?

I have created this sensational program: #include <stdio.h> int* func (void) { int local=5; return &local; } int main (void) { printf("%d\n", *func()); } This prints 5 even thoug...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Lundin‭

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Q&A Is it undefined behaviour to just make a pointer point outside boundaries of an array without dereferencing it?

I have heard that it is undefined behaviour to make a pointer point outside boundaries of an array even without dereferencing it. Can that really be true? Consider this code: int main(void) { ...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by klutt‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by hkotsubo‭