Segmentation Fault doesn't come up immediately after accessing out-of-bound memory
问题 I wrote this piece of code and was expecting a segmentation fault quicly, but it seems I am allowed to access pieces of memory I shouldn't be able to. #include<stdio.h> int main() { int tab[1]; tab[0]=42; int i; //Expecting Seg Fault from i==1... for(i=0;;i++) { printf("%d \t %d \n", i, tab[i]); } return 0; } I am compiling using: gcc -Wall -Wextra my_code.c -o segfault && ./segfault Upon execution, variable i reaches values of order 1000 before I get my Segmentation Fault. My question is: