Will this code cause an error during runtime, error during compilation, or no error? 1.) char str[5]; strcpy (str, "hello"); 2.) char *str; strcpy (str, "hello");

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• Feb 4th, 2011

Both snippets result in undefined behavior.  The first snippet invokes undefined behavior because we are attempting to write one past then end of the array object (7.21.1/1).  This may ...

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• Jan 18th, 2011

First one will not reproduce any error..Second one will give a segmentation fault while run time...

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