Out-of-bounds pointers

[Mark Brader]

> > It's not even "legal" to compute an invalid address, whether or not
> > it is dereferenced.
> ... if you are allowed to declare an auto pointer at all
> then obviously the hardware supports uninitialized pointers ...

No; the implementation could elect to initialize everything, say to a null
pointer, as part of the action of bringing the variable into existence in
addressable space.  (And remember, a null pointer could be implemented as
a pointer to a particular anonymous object somewhere.)

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