Take the address of a one-past-the-end array element via subscript: legal by the C++ Standard or not?

Question

I have seen it asserted several times now that the following code is not allowed by the C++ Standard:

int array[5];
int *array_begin = &array[0];
int *ar         


        

Answer 1

If your example is NOT a general case but a specific one, then it is allowed. You can legally, AFAIK, move one past the allocated block of memory. It does not work for a generic case though i.e where you are trying to access elements farther by 1 from the end of an array.

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