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Re: mips address+symbol issue.
Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
(My understanding is that the C standard doesn't even permit you to
form the address of an out-of-bounds array access. Doing so moves you
out of the range of standardized behaviour, and no promises are made.)
Ian
That's correct, with the odd exception that you can point just past
the end of an array, and get a valid pointer value that can be
compared with any pointer within the array (it's larger :-) but
cannot be dereferenced. At least that's my understanding!