Curious Learner questions

• It it UB to read some contiguous array cells as a larger type?
• What does `var@GOTPCREL(%rip)` mean?
• Understanding clang loop-optimization
• Where does the memory used for a string go when the string variable is re-assigned a new value?
• Why is the constant pool (in Java classfile) indexed from 1 (and not 0)? What is the constant_pool[0] entry reserved for?

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