Memory access violation. What's wrong with this seemingly simple program?

Question

This is a quick program I just wrote up to see if I even remembered how to start a c++ program from scratch. It\'s just reversing a string (in place), and looks generally c

Answer 1

The line

char *someString = "Hi there, I'm bad at this.";

makes someString point to a string literal, which cannot be modified. Instead of using a raw pointer, use a character array:

char someString[] = "Hi there, I'm bad at this.";