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

[Mike Franklin via Digitalmars-d]

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