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From: Pete Becker <pete@versatilecoding.com>
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On 2011-06-02 14:41:16 -1000, Paul said:

> "Pete Becker" <pete@versatilecoding.com> wrote in message 
> news:2011060210342271730-pete@versatilecodingcom...
>> On 2011-06-02 09:23:12 -1000, Paul said:
>> 
>>> 
>>> I am simply trying to get to the bottom of why you think a pointer of 
>>> type int* cannot point to an array of integer objects.
>> 
>> The reason is simple: a pointer of type int* points to an int. That's 
>> what int* means. An int is not an array of integer objects.
>> 
> int arr1[1];
> This is an int(singular)
> int arr2[16];
> These are ints(plural)
> A pointer to all these ints can be, and usually is, of type int*.

A pointer to any of these ints is of type int*. There is no single 
pointer to all of these ints.

> 
> A pointer references a memory location and when its dereferenced we get 
> the value from that location.
> You cannot reference a whole array unless you have an array of 
> pointers. You can only represent a pointer to the whole array using the 
> C++ type system.
> 
> I can appreciate both pointer types as pointing to an array of objects, 
> in different ways. I do not think that an int* cannot point to an array 
> of int objects.

Which is what I said above: an int* points to an int. It does not point 
to an array of int objects, because an array of int objects is not an 
int.

-- 
  Pete
Roundhouse Consulting, Ltd. (www.versatilecoding.com) Author of "The 
Standard C++ Library Extensions: a Tutorial and Reference 
(www.petebecker.com/tr1book)