Why a is same as *a here?

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Why *a have same value as a?
what is meant by *a here?

What I have tried:

C++

#include<stdio.h>
int main()
{
    int a[3][3];
    printf("%u       %u",a,*a);
    return 0;
}

Posted 3-Jun-21 19:12pm

Updated 3-Jun-21 19:48pm

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Richard MacCutchan 4-Jun-21 5:42am

Because *a is the address of the first row, which happens to be the same as the address of the array.

_-_-_-me 4-Jun-21 7:13am

okay, thank you very much . I got it now.

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CPallini · Answer 1 · 2021-06-03T19:48:00

Posted 3-Jun-21 19:48pm