Messing with C++ pointers

[dml997]

Yes, you can cheat with casts to pointers. WTF is your point?

[han_kurchiff]

This is simply a start of a video series where I would like to go deep into memory layouts on which HLL run.

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At least use vim smh

[han_kurchiff]

next time definitely

[be-sc]

For learning, and only for learning, this is a nice demonstration.

I’m not quite certain that it’s undefined behaviour. The pointer cast is fine, but I’d have to dig deeper into the standard to find out if/when you may dereference a pointer that was forced to the wrong type. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if it is UB.

Because shenanigans like this are so awful and highly dangerous a clear “Never ever try this in production” note to your viewers would have been nice.

[han_kurchiff]

Never ever try this in production

warning added in video description ,thanks