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Accessing array out of bounds in C/C++
In a language such as Java, an exception such as java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException may occur if an array is accessed out of bounds. But there is no such functionality in C and undefined behaviour may occur if an array is accessed out of bounds.
A program that demonstrates this in C is given as follows.
Example
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
int arr[] = {1,2,3,4,5};
printf("The elements of array : ");
for(int i = 0; i<6; i++)
printf(" %d",arr[i]);
return 0;
}Output
The output of the above program is as follows.
The elements of array : 1 2 3 4 5 32765
Now let us understand the above program.
The array arr has assigned values only till subscript 4. So when the array elements are printed, arr[5] results in a garbage value. The code snippet that shows this is as follows.
int arr[] = {1,2,3,4,5};
printf("The elements of array : ");
for(int i = 0; i<6; i++)
printf(" %d",arr[i]);
Updated on: 26-Jun-2020
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