Program not Segfaulting when it should (C)

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I'm running the program on Debian 7.5, i386. I'm trying to reproduce this code that is deliberately a segfault. For some reason however it's simply not segfaulting - but rather continuing execution until the end of the loop.

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
    int array[5]; 
    int i;

    for (i=0; i<=255; i++)
    {
            array[i] = 10;
            printf("%d\t\t%d\n", i, array[i]);
    }
}

Compiled with

cc buffer.c

Produces the output

./a.out
0               10
1               10
2               10
3               10
4               10
10              1
11              10
12              10
13              10
14              10
15              10
....
255             10

Obviously this /should/ be segfaulting. I suspect there is some form of system or compile option enabled by default preventing it. Any idea what it is?

Thanks.

asked 59 secs ago

Peleus

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Program not Segfaulting when it should (C)