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Message: [QUOTE="Frederick Gotham, post: 2580758"] benben posted: That information is flawed. The first example does NOT contain any string literal whatsoever; it's just the syntax we use to conveniently initialise an array. The following two definitions are exactly equivalent: char str[] = "hello"; char str[] = {'h','e','l','l','o',0}; The second example however DOES contain a string literal. We know string literals to be of static storage duration, so we can say it's quite equivalent to: static char const literal_[] = {'H','e','l','l','o',0}; char (&literal)[sizeof literal_] = const_cast<char(&)[sizeof literal_]>(literal_); char const *p = literal; [/QUOTE]