how to create adjacent arrays in memory?

Hi i'm new to programming. I wanted to create two integer arrays which are adjacent in memory. i had written the following code, but i'm getting segmentation fault when i run it.

#include<iostream>
using namespace std;

void printarray(int* a,int size)
{
for(int i=0;i<size;i++)
cout<<a[i]<<endl;
}

Code:

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int main()
{
        int a[3]={0,1,2,}; //the first array
        int* pa;
        pa = &(a[2]);
        pa++;
        int* b = pa; //the second array


        for(int i=0;i<3;i++)
        {
                b[i]=i+2;
        }
        printarray(a,3);
        printarray(b,3);

}

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any help would be greatly appreciated..thanks

You can create one big array, then maintain pointers to the start and middle of that array, treating it as if there are two arrays contained in one.

thanks a lot

Your code looks logically correct, except you are not allocating memory for the second array (hence the seg fault). What you can do instead (in addition to laserlight's suggestion), is use a 2-dimensional array:

Code:

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int array2D [2] [3];            // Create 2 arrays next to each other
int (&a) [3] = array2D [0];  // 'a' is a reference to the first array
int (&b) [3] = array2D [1];  // 'b' is a reference to the second array

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This creates a 2D array, and then gives the names 'a' and 'b' to the sub-arrays.