I’m learning C++. The following program looks nice and generic:

typedef some_type T;
int main() {
  T* p = new T;
}

And it indeed works for non-array types like int, etc. However, if I try typedef int T[2]; it breaks with the error “cannot convert ‘int*’ to ‘int (*)[2]'”. What’s the logic here? Is there anything I could do to new to make it return an object of the correct (for this pointer) type?

typedef int T[2];
int main() {
  T* p = new ???;
}

FWIW, new int[2] doesn’t work either. Maybe I’m missing some syntax here, the general idea would be to allocate an object of type T where type T happens to be an array of two ints.