Suppose we have
int x = 4;
int *ptr = &x;
I was hoping that ptr[0]
would be ptr
, ptr[1]
would be ptr 1
, etc. However, something completely different happens. I ran
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
int x = 4;
int* ptr;
ptr = &x;
//ptr vs ptr[0]
printf("ptr: %p\n\n", ptr);
printf("ptr[0]: %p\n\n", ptr[0]);
//ptr 1 vs ptr[1]
printf("ptr 1: %p\n\n", ptr 1);
printf("ptr[1]: %p\n\n", ptr[1]);
//ptr 5 vs ptr[5]
printf("ptr 5: %p\n\n", ptr 5);
printf("ptr[5]: %p\n\n", ptr[5]);
}
The result was
ptr: 0115FBF4
ptr[0]: 00000004
ptr 1: 0115FBF8
ptr[1]: CCCCCCCC
ptr 5: 0115FC08
ptr[5]: 00000001
CodePudding user response:
ptr[0]
is *(ptr 0)
, ptr[1]
is *(ptr 1)
, etc. Indexing computes the offset and dereferences. You should have gotten a warning about using %p
to print something that isn't a pointer.