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[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Much better... but can we make it *((void*)(p = p + 1))?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

How about some JavaScript p+=[]**[]?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Why are you casting to void*? How is the compiler supposed to know the size of the data you are dereferencing?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This would probably cause a compiler error....

But assuming it doesn't the context is p_ch = the bits above... the code declaring p_ch isn't shown but I'm guessing that the value here is actuality a pointer to a pointer so nothing illegal would be happening.

Lastly... C++ is really lacking in guarantees so you can assign a char to the first byte of an integer - C++ doesn't generally care what you do unless you go out of bounds.

The reason I'm casting to void* is just pure comedy.