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From: Randi Botse <nightdecoder@gmail.com>
Subject: malloc question
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:33:50 +0700
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Hi All,

I want to ask malloc() behaviour, consider these codes;

...
char *ptr = malloc(1);
strcpy(ptr, "what");
puts(ptr);
....

Confusingly, the strcpy() copied all bytes to ptr, but I just manage
to allocate ptr only for 1 byte, I guess I will have segfault here,
why this happen? why the string successfully copied into ptr? , is
those code legal?

Randi,