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If defining a constant array do not use a pointer as data type. Instead use the data type and append the array symbol with undefined length, <tt>[]</tt>, behind the name. Otherwise you also define a variable to some const data. That variable could mistakenly be assigned a new pointer to, without the compiler complaining about. And accessing the array would have one indirection, because first the value of the variable needs to be read.

If defining a constant array do not use a pointer as data type. Instead use the data type and append the array symbol with undefined length, [], behind the name. Otherwise you also define a variable to some const data. That variable could mistakenly be assigned a new pointer to, without the compiler complaining about. And accessing the array would have one indirection, because first the value of the variable needs to be read.