C puzzles

Some interesting C problems 🙂
It’s on Gowri Kumar’s page.

Here’s one of the problem:

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The following C program segfaults of IA-64, but works fine on IA-32.

int main()
{
	int* p;
	p = (int*)malloc(sizeof(int));
	*p = 10;
	return 0;
}

Why does it happen so?

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http://www.gowrikumar.com/c/index.html

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