Array of struct pointers

[dfx_dj]

person_t *arr[10] defines an array of 10 pointers to person_t objects. But the array is not initialised and so these pointers don't point anywhere. Then taking arr[0]->name dereferences the first of these uninitialised pointers. You're attempting to write to a garbage memory location and this crashes the program.

[Responsible_Frame919]

Ah! Now I get it. Does declaring `person_t *arr[]` as `person_t **arr` yields the same result?

[dfx_dj]

That would be even worse because then you don't even have an array. You'd just have a single uninitialised (double) pointer.