The most popular error in C and C++ is the followong: arrays and pointers are equals.
// a.cpp
int t[] = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5};
int main()
{
cout << t[2] << endl; // ok
int *p = t;
cout << p[2] << endl; // ok
g(p);
g(t);
return 0;
}
// b.cpp
extern int *t;
int g( int *par)
{
cout << par[2] << endl; // ok
cout << t[2] << endl; // runtime error
}