From: jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu   
      
   On 2025-11-29 17:28, Waldek Hebisch wrote:   
   ...   
   > AFAICS there are two essentially different cases: normal arrays,   
   > that decay to pointers and VMT-s which preserve information about   
   > array size.   
      
   The term "decay" is often used (though only in one location in the   
   standard itself) to refer to the consequences of the following rule:   
      
   "Except when it is the operand of the sizeof operator, or typeof   
   operators, or the unary & operator, or is a string literal used to   
   initialize an array, an expression that has type "array of type" is   
   converted to an expression with type "pointer to type" that points to   
   the initial element of the array object ..." (6.3.2.1p3).   
      
   This rule applies just as strongly to arrays that have variably modified   
   type as it does to other arrays.   
      
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