C++ programmer's guide to undefined behavior: part 9 of 11

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Your attention is invited to the ninth part of an e-book on undefined behavior. This is not a textbook, as it's intended for those who are already familiar with C++ programming. It's a kind of C++ programmer's guide to undefined behavior and to its most secret and exotic corners. The book was written by Dmitry Sviridkin and edited by Andrey Karpov.

C++ programmer's guide to undefined behavior: part 9 of 11

by Dmitry Sviridkin

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And you could write it only in C++. In C, however, this mess has been forbidden (see 6.5.3.2, note 104). Also, you can't use the dereference operator on invalid and null pointers anywhere in C. Meanwhile, C++ has its own, special way of doing things. These weird examples were built in constexpr context (let me remind you that UB is forbidden there, and the compiler checks for it).

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