Actually, if you print the value of x before and after calling: x = “test”; You will see that it has changed. By losing a track to your allocated memory, you face with memory leak here. Furthermore, printf prints a string that starts from the pointer position until it finds the string terminated ‘\0’ (0). … Read more
Have a look at: Building a Cross compiler for Windows on Linux MinGW cross compiler for Linux build environment 5 solved Install MinGW for SUSE Linux [closed]
To quote the gcc manual: If no init section is available, when GCC compiles any function called main (or more accurately, any function designated as a program entry point by the language front end calling expand_main_function), it inserts a procedure call to __main as the first executable code after the function prologue. The __main function … Read more
Why should the compiler warn you about something that is perfectly legal? You are instructing the program to output the content of cout, which is legal, and will work. I am not sure how the operator << is defined for cout, but printing its address would be my expectation, so something like 0x489944 (or longer) … Read more