Arrays and pointers

[hallow jungle]

From my understanding an array points to index 0 but when I print out the pointers of the a[0] and a they are not the same. Could someone more experienced explain this?

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[thorny cliff]

a[i] is an int. not pointer.

a "decays to" a pointer

you should see the difference between you %p output being sizeof(int)

[hallow jungle]

should the memory adress of a[0] and a be the same?

[thorny cliff]

yes

assert( a == &a[0] );

[hallow jungle]

how does it decay to a pointer

[thorny cliff]

just means a syntax is teh same as saying &a[0]

[hallow jungle]

ok thank you

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[hallow jungle]

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