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by astrange 713 days ago
> The malloc function allocates space for an object whose size is specified by size and whose value is indeterminate.

> The lifetime of an allocated object extends from the allocation until the deallocation. Each such allocation shall yield a pointer to an object disjoint from any other object.

A static array is "an object" already. A pointer to the middle of it is not a new object.