Why don’t I get a segmentation fault when I write beyond the end of an array?

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Because undefined behavior == anything can happen. You’re unlucky that it doesn’t crash, this sort of behavior can potentially hide bugs.

As for a being define twice – that’s a bug in the compiler.

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