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Subject: assigning to const int via pointer
From: Joe Steeve <joe_steeve@gmx.net>
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The following code assigns a value to a `const int` via a
pointer.,

#include <stdio.h>

int 
main()
{
  const int x=5;
  int *ptr;
  ptr = &x;
  *ptr = 10;
  printf("%d",x);
}

The code gives `10` for the following compilation

    $gcc -o test test.c

It gives `5` when using optimisations switches.,

    $gcc -o test -O2 test.c

Feature or bug or any explanation for this? 

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