Default values for array arguments

Question

Just playing around a little with C++. What I really want to do is to be able to setup a function with default values defined for an array or pointer argument. To keep thing

Answer 1

When you use string literal "abc", it's allocated by compiler somewhere in the memory, and a pointer to its first character is used as default value. So for the compiler the code is like that: void experimentA(char a[3] = 0x12345678);.

For the second case, the array literal is not allocated by a compiler as a string (which I would see as some inconsistency in the language).