(char *)(-1)

[Alan J Rosenthal]

pardo at june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel) writes:
>    char const magic_1 = 'j';
>    static char const terminator[] = "unk";
>    #define MAGIC_1 (&magic_1)
>
>Then  `return (MAGIC_1);'.  *If* the implementation gives you
>contiguous layout, then dereferencing `MAGIC_1' will give you `junk'...

Of course, there is a way to request contiguous layout in C:
    char magic_1[] = "junk";
    #define MAGIC_1 magic_1