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Pascal Obry wrote:
> That's not the point. My point is that you can pass ptr1 or "new char[12]"
> into a "char*" parameter. Hence the fact that this is pointers not arrays.

No. C and C++ have automatic conversion from an array type to
a pointer to (first) element. Also, function parameters cannot
be arrays, and even if they are declared that way, they are not
arrays but pointers.

Nevertheless, the arrays are real arrays, and in C++, their
character is easily preserved by using references.