ldc executable crashes with this code

[H. S. Teoh]

On Wed, Feb 02, 2022 at 11:21:52PM +0000, forkit via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
[...]
>     char[] palindrome = cast(char[])"able was I ere I saw elba";

String literals are immutable by default. Casting immutable to mutable
is UB (Undefined Behaviour).


[...]
>     writeln(palindrome.reverse);

Especially because .reverse mutates its argument.  So you're attempting
to overwrite immutable data here. That's probably what caused the crash:
the literal is put in the read-only segment and the OS killed the
program when it tried to write to data in that read-only segment.


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