An Interesting Finding of C Array Symbols

Please check the programming code in C/C++ below:

// array_symbols.c
#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
    int foo[1];
    if((void *)foo == (void *)&foo) {
        printf("%p\t%p\n", foo, &foo);
    }
    return 0;
}

The output may be like this:

0x16f21afc8	0x16f21afc8

The two addresses are the same, which means that in C/C++, array names and addressing array names are equivalent, the array’s name itself acts as a pointer to its first element.