This tutorial is just to show how array name holds a base address of an array.

Array name is base address

Consider the below example of an array in c programming -

#include<stdio.h>
void main()
{
 char s[]="cat";
 int i;
  for(i=0;s[i];i++)
      printf("\n%c %c %c %c",s[i],*(s+i),*(i+s),i[s]);
}

Answer -

c c c c
a a a a
t t t t

Explanation :

1. Array name is the base address of the array, here ‘s’ holds the base address of an array.
2. ‘i’ is the index number/displacement from the base address.
3. Array arr[i] can be Represented as -

arr[i] = *(array name + displacement)
       = *(arr + i)
       = Value at (Array name + Displacement)
       = Value at (Base Address + Displacement)

similarly we can conclude that -

s[i] = *(s + i)
i[s] = *(i + s)

Consider the above example with practical example, Suppose we have an array having starting address 1000 -

Now in this case array ‘s’ represents an array of character so we can say that ‘s’ holds a base address of a character array.