On 2019-02-19 15:44 +0100, Patrick Bégou wrote: > Hi, > > I need a small theoritical explanation about arrays in C. These questions are off-topic in gcc-help. It should go to comp.lang.c or somewhere. > I would like to know why using: > > char A[24]; > > scanf("%s", A); and scanf("%s", &A); does the same thing (as it is not > the same code). > > I've checked that printing A or &A with "%p" prints the same address.... > but why ? STFG. The first URL Google suggested for "address of array" is exactly the answer of this question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2528318/how-come-an-arrays-address-is-equal-to-its-value-in-c -- Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University