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by shultays 1467 days ago
it is not nullptr, it is address past \0 in "", which is an invalid address
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No, the address itself is not invalid, you're just not allowed to dereference it. Pointers have to point at a valid object or, in the case of arrays, one past the end of the array. It's what `std::end` returns
Hence, evilest. (It got me.)