static into dynamic

[rvelez3]

Hi. can someone tell me why the following is correct and will compile:
int static_Array[5];
dynamic_Array = new int[5];
dynamic_Array = static_Array;
but the opposite:
static_Array = dynamic_Array will not compile.

[Peter87]

dynamic_Array is a int*, right? You can change the pointer to point to some other data. static_Array is an array, not a pointer, so you cannot make it point anywhere.

[viliml]

Static arrays are constant pointers, so they can't be changed! Dynamic arrays on the other hand are plain pointers, with extra memory put aside. Const-pointers can be assigned to regular pointers, but nothing can be assigned to const-pointers!

[Disch]

Static arrays are constant pointers

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Static arrays can be implicitly cast to constant pointers, but they are not pointers themselves, they are arrays. It's treated as a different type by the langauge (as can be seen via passing arrays to a function by reference... or, more commonly, with sizeof)

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