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

#include
#include

int main(void) {
    const int a = 1; //a is constant
    fprintf(stdout,"%d\n",a);//prints 1
    int* a_ptr = &a;
    *a_ptr = 4;//memory leak in c(value of a changed)
    fprintf(stdout,"%d",a);//prints 4
return 0;
}