Accessing out-of-bounds elements of dynamically allocated arrays / w/o SegFault

Question

I\'m developing a program in C that uses an array of linked lists (a primitive hash table) as a data type to represent certain date information. The array has twelve elements c

Answer 1

Could anybody explain why accessing out-of-bounds elements would not result in a segfault?

This is Undefined Behaviour, it does not have to segfault. On Linux you can run your program under Valgrind to catch this kind of errors.