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In assembly languages, storage defined with a name turns into a pointer; like when you write some "load reg, name", instruction referencing that name, you are loading a pointer. The pointer is not stored anywhere; it turns into an immediate operand right in the instruction which is backpatched when the object file is linked.

The predecessor dialects of C were being silly to actually have a pointer word inside the declared array object; C kind of returned to the normal "assembly-like state of things" by treating a region of storage declared as an array as a base pointer, without that pointer being stored alongside the array.