C/C++ changing the value of a const

Question

I had an article, but I lost it. It showed and described a couple of C/C++ tricks that people should be careful. One of them interested me but now that I am trying to repli

Answer 1

this will create a runtime fault. Because the int is static. Unhandled exception. Access violation writing location 0x00035834.

void main(void)
{
    static const int x = 5;
    int *p = (int *)x;
    *p = 99;                //here it will trigger the fault at run time
}