Hi

coming from this question "What does (int (*)[])var1 stand for?" I tried to access the result of the cast like a multidimensional array. But I get following error: "assignment from incompatible pointer type" followed by a segmentation fault. I tried also some other variations, but none of them worked. How can I access the elements in var1 in the function example directly?

Thank you!

 #include <stdlib.h>

int i(int n,int m,int var1[n][m]) {
  var1[0][0]=5;
  return var1[0][0];
}

int example() {
  int *var1 = malloc(100);

  // works
  int var2;
  var2 = i(10,10,(int (*)[])var1);
  printf("var2=%i",var2);
  //doesn't work I
  int *var3;
  var3=(int (*)[])var1; //"assignment from incompatible pointer type"
  printf("var3[0][0]=%i",var3[0][0]);


  //doesn't work II
  int *var4;
  var4=var1;
  printf("var4[0][0]=%i",var4[0][0]); //" error: subscripted value is neither array nor pointer"

  //doesn't work III
  int **var5;
  var5=var1;
  printf("var5[0][0]=%i",var5[0][0]); // assignment from incompatible pointer type


  return(1); 

} 

int main(){
  int a;
  a=example();
  return(1);
}