Thread: Dereferencing

Hi,

if I get it right, ap in the following example is a pointer to an array of 10 ints. See the code example for my question.

Code:

void somefunc(int (*ap)[10])
{
  int i = 5, j = 6; 
  printf("%i", (*(ap + i))[j]); // the same as ap[i][j]
  // What would *(ap + i)[j] without the extra brackets refer to?
}

If you look at this page, [] has higher precedence than *. Without parentheses to swap the order of those two, the *(ap + i)[j] has the effect of *ap[i+j], or ap[i+j][0].