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by marcomonteiro 5546 days ago
It's not the same as (index + arr). arr is a pointer to the beginning address of a series of particular "types". These types have a specific size in memory. Index increments the pointer by (n * size_of(type)).

arr[index] == arr + (n * size_of(type)) == (n * size_of(type)) + *arr

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He said it's the same as

    *(index + arr)
which is correct.

C pointer arithmetic already accounts for object sizes.

And it's sizeof, not size_of. And

    arr + x
is completely different from

    x + *arr
And it's a series of "values".
I don't know what I was on. Proof positive that sleep depravation does not give me more time to be "productive". Thanks for the correction and apologies for my mistake.