Bug with pointer to array (unsafer unsafeness)

[hamarb123]

As a part of the unsafer unsafeness in C# 11, it seems that we can now take pointers to objects like so:

object o = new();
object* ptr = &o;

But it seems like it doesn't work properly for array types:

string[] arr = new string[0];
string[]* ptr1 = &arr; //doesn't work
var ptr2 = &arr; //works

VS even seems to think this should be possible:

In case it isn't clear why this is an issue: the reason this would be an issue is you wouldn't be able to cast another pointer to this type, or specify a parameter of this type.

I assume it is probably a bug or oversight that you can't declare it, just thought I'd mention it and I hope it gets a bug fix in the next compiler/sdk patch.

[huoyaoyuan]

It looks like a parser bug when reproduced in sharplab: object[]* does exist in error message when there's type mismatch, but declaring a variable results in syntax error.