Why do compilers not warn about out-of-bounds static array indices?

Question

A colleague of mine recently got bitten badly by writing out of bounds to a static array on the stack (he added an element to it without increasing the array size). Shouldn

Answer 1

The C philosophy is that the programmer is always right. So it will silently allow you to access whatever memory address you give there, assuming that you always know what you are doing and will not bother you with a warning.