Thread: Pointer dereference

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    Pointer dereference

    Hi i got the following code am trying to understand:
    Code:
    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <stdlib.h>
    
    int main(void)
    {
       int *x;
       int i;
    
       x = (int *) malloc ( sizeof(int) * 100);
    
       for(i = 0; i < 100; i++)
          x[i] = i;
    
       for(i = 0; i < 100; i++)
          printf("%d ",x[i]);
       printf("\n");
    
       free (x);
    
       for(i = 0; i < 100; i++)
          printf("%d ",x[i]);
       printf("\n");
    }
    Its the bit in red above. I thought you have to dereference to get the value so shouldnt it be:
    printf("%d ",*x[i]);?

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    x[i] is equivalent to *(x + i)

    Incidentally, you should not be accessing what x points to after free(x), and there is no need to cast the return value of malloc().
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