Why does it NOT give a segmentation violation?
- by user198729
The code below is said to give a segmentation violation:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
void function(char *str) {
char buffer[16];
strcpy(buffer,str);
}
int main() {
char large_string[256];
int i;
for( i = 0; i < 255; i++)
large_string[i] = 'A';
function(large_string);
return 1;
}
It's compiled and run like this:
gcc -Wall -Wextra hw.cpp && a.exe
But there is nothing output.
NOTE
The above code indeed overwrites the ret address and so on if you really understand what's going underneath.
