Odd .....

[Ben Duncan]

In one of my test C programs, malloc'd a 2048 byte memory page.
I decided to see if I could segfault it (testing a thery)
and it did NOT segfault ... what Am I doing wrong, or is this
just how things works ... And is there a way to test for
any of these buffer overruns ?

ie:

char *buffer_ptr ;
char TEST_STRING [ ] = "TEST STRING" ;

buffer_ptr = malloc (2048) ;
... do some stuff putting things in the buffer ...
buffer_ptr = buffer_ptr + 2096 ;
memcpy ( buffer_ptr, TEST_STRING, sizeof (TEST_STRING ) ) ;

And I got no segfault doing this ...


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