What is the real difference between arrays and pointers?
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Answer / subhasmita swain
arrays stores a block of contigious memory .where as
Pointers are save the base address of the block of
memory,it may be a array of datas.pointers can resize them
shelves by pointing to a different block of memory,in
contrast arrays are fixed size.
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Answer / vipul singh
there is only a single difference between array and pointer,
in c lang array is limited(limited in the sense,define the
size at complie time) while pointer are upto memory location.
array and pointer both point to the initial
address.
if somebody says it is wrong so pls tell me the correct
difference.
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Answer / ajay kumar
The name of the array represents the base address of the array. Thus, the name of the array can be used effectively as any other pointer to an array in accessing the elements of the array.
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Answer / ravi
Array is simply collecton of similar datatype and the pointer is a variable that represents the location of that data.
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Answer / bhavani.p
Array is slow,array refer data in memory location.
Pointer is fast,pointer refer address to the memory location....
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Answer / revathi
Array supports static memory allocation in the sense the memory size is allocated before it can use
Pointer supports dynamic memory allocation in the sense the memory is resized
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Answer / saurabh agarwal
array name is a unmodifiable lvalue whereas pointer is a modifiable l value
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Answer / shubham arora
1-through pointers we can access data directly while in array we have to traverse the whole array for accessing particular data.
2- due to above reason accessing through pointers is fast than
array.
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Answer / anu yadav
array can be of any size whereas pointer is always of 2 byte......
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Answer / sachin.r
Arrays allocate the memory during compile time.
Pointers allocate the memory during runtime.
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