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That should throw a segmentation fault, in the kernel an OOPS,  in this 
statement the code is trying to dereference a NULL pointer and store a 
value at 0x0.

David

Dinesh Gandhewar wrote:

>Hello,
>What is the effect of following statement at the end of function definition?
>*(int *)0 = 0;	
>Thanking you,
>Dinesh 
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