Thread: An interesting question ` char str[9] = "deadbeef" `

The code has a compile-time error

Code:

char str[9] ;
str = "dEAdbeef";

It complains:

cannot convert from 'const char [9]' to 'char [9]'cannot convert from 'const char [9]' to 'char [9]'

However when I modify the code to:

Code:

char* str ;
str = "dEAdbeef";

It works! The compiler doesn't complain anything! How come assigning a 'const char [9]' to 'char *' can work? I think at least it shall cast away the const-ness of "dEAdbeef", right?