Pointer indirections

[Ali Çehreli]

On 5/4/21 3:06 PM, Imperatorn wrote:

 >> Is there any limitation as to the number of pointer indirections?

No.

 >> I have a construct:
 >>    a.b.c.d = x;
 >> where all the variables are pointers to struct (the same struct).
 >>
 >> This fails with 'Access Violation',
 >> but if I change the code to:
 >>
 >>  temp = a.b.c;
 >>  temp.d = x;
 >>
 >> everything seems to work.

Sounds like "undefined behavior" somewhere in the program, effects of 
which can be confusing.

Ali