C: How come an array's address is equal to its value?
- by Alexandre
In the following bit of code, pointer values and pointer addresses differ as expected.
But array values and addresses don't!
How can this be?
Output
my_array = 0022FF00
&my_array = 0022FF00
pointer_to_array = 0022FF00
&pointer_to_array = 0022FEFC
...
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
char my_array[100] = "some cool string";
printf("my_array = %p\n", my_array);
printf("&my_array = %p\n", &my_array);
char *pointer_to_array = my_array;
printf("pointer_to_array = %p\n", pointer_to_array);
printf("&pointer_to_array = %p\n", &pointer_to_array);
printf("Press ENTER to continue...\n");
getchar();
return 0;
}
