The first declaration is commonly referred to as an array of pointers. Does the second declaration have a name or description that distinguishes it from the first declaration?
Declaration 1: int *p[SIZE]
Declaration 2: int (*p)[SIZE]
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1The second is a *pointer to an array* (of size `SIZE`). – Kninnug Oct 03 '15 at 15:49
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int *p[SIZE]
This is to declare array of SIZE number of pointers to int
Whereas , this -
int (*p)[SIZE]
declare p as pointer to array of int (having SIZE number of elements)
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p is array of int pointers.
int *p[SIZE]
p is pointer to an array of integers
int (*p)[SIZE]
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The second kind of declaration is mentioned in 5.12 Complicated Declarations The C programming Language book. Here is some reference which explains complicated declarations
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Entity 1: array of pointers, and Entity 2: pointer to an array. That's what I wanted to know. Thanks. – Oct 03 '15 at 16:47
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