Re: C Standard Regarding Null Pointer Dereferencing

Shao Miller wrote:

*(char *)0

(C) "Address and indirection operators", 6.5.3.2, Semantics 4:

"...if [the operand] points to an object,
the result is an lvalue designating the object."


What does the standard say that the result is,
if the operand doesn't point to an object?


Is there undefined behaviour?

What do you think?



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pete
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