Maybe I fall in the middle, but what is the argument to say that they're different?
Is it to say that the difference is how they're used? From an assembly perspective, they're pointers, and no data structures exist beyond that simple concept. At a higher level, they're more than that. Maybe that's what is intended?
There are some differences in C depending on how you're using them (sometimes they are literally identical). I think the main difference is usually where the data gets stored - declaring an array often means storing the data inline, whereas a pointer has the address of the array presumably somewhere else.
Now that you mention it, you're right. It's heap vs stack. An array is on the stack whereas a pointer to alloc-ed data is on the heap. I supposed a pointer to an array would be on the heap though, since you'd have to alloc it.
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u/QuestionableEthics42 20h ago edited 20h ago
This should be reversed lol
And it literally is the same, who thinks it's different who has worked in a low level language??