Shouldn't invalid references like this fail at compile time?

[Mike Franklin]

On Thursday, 25 January 2018 at 04:59:55 UTC, Mike Franklin wrote:

> Yes, ROM is at address 0.  Address 0 contains the initial stack 
> pointer.  So you read address 0, dereference it, and then do 
> your damage.

Keep in mind too that the ROM, on these devices, is actually 
reprogrammable from the firmware itself, so one could do some 
clever exploitation of that feature to insert whatever they want 
into the product's firmware.

Mike