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| Why does C let you access memory that is out of the bounds of an array? |
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| Create a list of 10 integers initialized to 0 |
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| What happens when you retrieve the value of int list[5]? |
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| Moves to the list term times the data type size (in this case, 5 * 4 = 20 bytes down) |
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| How to tell how many elements there are in an array |
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| sizeof(array) / sizeof(array[0]) |
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| What does *(list + 5) mean, and how does it work? |
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| It is the value of the sixth element in the array. You locate the start of the array, move 5 * 4 = 20 bytes down (for an integer array), and dereference the pointer at that location. |
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| What is pointer arithmetic? |
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| Finding a pointer that is located (number of elements) * (data type size) bytes down |
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