Re: Array of pointers + memory Location

On Mar 5, 9:57 am, "Victor Bazarov" <v.Abaza...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Nick Keighley wrote:
> > On 5 Mar, 14:38, Slain <Slai...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> >> I have more of a conceptual question now. Let us say I do this:-
>
> >> char *str[10]; --> create an array of pointers
> >> str[1]= "John";
>
> >> I thought this would automatically put John at some memory space and
> >> point str[1] to it.
>
> > yes
>
> Except that it shouldn't compile since "John" is an array of const
> char and 'str[1]' is a pointer to non-const char.  There is no
> conversion without a cast.  The intent probably was to declare 'str'
> as 'char const* str[10];'
>
> > [..]
>
> V
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It does compile as long as it is inside main or any function. So may
be it does a type conversion.