A pointer to 2d array

Question

I have a question about a pointer to 2d array. If an array is something like

int a[2][3];

then, is this a pointer to array a?<

Answer 1

The [3] is a part of the type. In this case p is a pointer to an array of size 3 which holds ints.

The particular type of an array always includes its size, so that you have the types int *[3] or int *[5], but not just int *[] which has undefined size.

int *x[20]; /* type of x is int *[20], not just int *[] */
int y[10][10]; /* type of y is int[10][10], not just int[][] */