Whats the difference? Pointer to an array vs regular array

Question

I\'m familiar with Java and trying to teach myself C/C++. I\'m stealing some curriculum from a class that is hosting their materials here. I unfortunately can\'t ask the tea

Answer 1

There is a difference but not in the area that you point to. *pointerArray will point to the beginning of a block of memory of size 10 bytes. So will array. The only difference will be where it is stored in memory. pointerArray is dynamically assigned memory (at run-time) and hence will go on the heap, while array[10] will be allocated at compile-time and will go to the stack.