Interpretation of int (*a)[3]

Question

When working with arrays and pointers in C, one quickly discovers that they are by no means equivalent although it might seem so at a first glance. I know about the differen

Answer 1

Every time you have doubts with complex declarations, you can use the cdecl tool in Unix like systems:

[/tmp]$ cdecl
Type `help' or `?' for help
cdecl> explain int (*a)[10];
declare a as pointer to array 10 of int

EDIT:

There is also a online version of this tool available here.

Thanks to Tiberiu Ana and gf