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Re: Indexing one past the end of array?

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>> Just some pedantry, but I believe you're allowed to point to the first
>> element after the end of an array, as long as you don't dereference
>> that element. Pointer comparisons with such a pointer are supposed to
>> work, too.

> Elsewhere, I've read that on embedded systems memory can be allocated 
> right up to the end of memory, and therefore such indexes are invalid 
> (but I cannot remember where).
> So, is it always legal to calculate one past the end of an array or 
> allocated memory?
> [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/278137/

In Theory assigning a value to a pointer to which is not accessible
might result in some type of protection-fault. But even with Windows
3.1 the compilers didn't the segment-registers until you really ac-
cessed any memory they referred to. Further doing any arithmetics on
hat (f.e. incrementing a hughe-pointer and thereby breaking a segment
-boundary) also doesn't result in loading the changed segment to a
segment-register until you access any memory through it. So 
_practi-cally_ you can simply assume you can assign anything to a pointer
and nothing happens until you access the memory.

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Indexing one past the end of array? Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2019-10-06 04:02 +0800
  Re: Indexing one past the end of array? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-10-05 13:13 -0700
    Re: Indexing one past the end of array? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-10-05 22:01 +0100
      Re: Indexing one past the end of array? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-10-05 14:35 -0700
      Re: Indexing one past the end of array? Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2019-10-05 19:00 -0400
        Re: Indexing one past the end of array? Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2019-10-06 08:05 -0700
      Re: Indexing one past the end of array? Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2019-10-06 06:36 -0700
        Re: Indexing one past the end of array? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-10-06 16:31 +0100
    Re: Indexing one past the end of array? Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2019-10-05 17:10 -0400
      Re: Indexing one past the end of array? Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2019-10-06 07:40 -0700
  Re: Indexing one past the end of array? Mateusz Viste <mateusz@wont.tell> - 2019-10-05 20:26 +0000
  Re: Indexing one past the end of array? chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2019-10-05 16:55 -0700
  Re: Indexing one past the end of array? "Oliver S." <Follow.Me@gmx.net> - 2019-10-06 15:50 +0200
  Re: Indexing one past the end of array? "Oliver S." <Follow.Me@gmx.net> - 2019-10-06 17:04 +0200
    Re: Indexing one past the end of array? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2019-10-07 13:32 +0000
      Re: Indexing one past the end of array? "Oliver S." <Follow.Me@gmx.net> - 2019-10-07 17:23 +0200

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