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undefined behavior

Code the standard puts no requirements on: anything may happen.

Undefined behavior (UB) results from breaking certain rules, such as reading out of bounds, signed overflow, or using a dangling pointer. The program may crash, print nonsense, or appear to work, and the optimizer may assume UB never happens.

See also

implementation-defined behavior unspecified behavior sanitizer
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