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Modern C for Absolute Beginners: A Friendly Introduction to the C Programming Language
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Modern C for Absolute Beginners: A Friendly Introduction to the C Programming Language

by Slobodan Dmitrović
February 2021
Beginner
338 pages
4h 11m
English
Apress
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S. DmitrovićModern C for Absolute Beginnershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6643-4_38

38. Do Not Read Out of Bounds

Slobodan Dmitrović1  
(1)
Belgrade, Serbia
 
Trying to access an array element that is not there invokes undefined behavior. We say we are reading out of bounds. The following example demonstrates a common scenario of trying to access a nonexistent, out of bounds array element:
#include <stdio.h>
int main(void)
{
      int arr[5] = {10, 20, 30, 40, 50};
      printf("Trying to read out of bounds...\n");
      printf("The non-existent array element is: %d\n", arr[5]);
}
Possible Output:
Trying to read out of bounds...
The non-existent array element is: 32767
In this example, we declared an array of five integers. We then ...
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