Is this undefined behavior with const_cast? [duplicate]

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Quote from cppreference:

Even though const_cast may remove constness or volatility from any pointer or reference, using the resulting pointer or reference to write to an object that was declared const or to access an object that was declared volatile invokes undefined behavior.

So yes, modifying constant variables is undefined behavior. The output you see is caused by the fact that you tell the compiler that the value of a will never change, so it can just put a literal 0 instead of the variable a in the cout line.

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