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Lindley is taking advantage of something implementation dependent, i.e., it is an attempt to trigger the use of the memory previously allocated to the destroyed array. This attempt happens to work.
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No, the pointer in main() will correctly point to the first character of the string literal. So, in this sense it is much ado about nothing: your code is correct on that point.

Let's look at an...

No, an array is always convertible to a pointer to its first element, which certainly is not of the same type as the array ;)


No, what VictorN is saying that by returning a string literal as you...

I had the impression that since a string literal is returned that is not so due to static storage duration. What would be wrong is the return type, i.e., it should be const char* instead of just...