#include<cstdio>
int main() {
int a[5] = {1,2,3,4,5};
int *ptr = (int*)(&a+1);
printf("%d %d" ,*(a+1),*(ptr-1));
}
here there the address location of a+1 is typecasted to point ptr;
i have tried ptr = (int)&a it is pointing the array.. as pointer address is stored in some location pointer ptr is pointing to that location how it is able to reference the location of array elements using *ptr
the output of the program is 2 5 can you please explain how 5 is the output
Since a is an array of 5 ints, &a is a pointer to an array of 5 ints. Because pointer arithmetic operates on multiples of the size of the pointed type, &a+1 is a pointer to a fictional array of 5 ints right after the ints stored in a. When you cast that to pointer to int and store in ptr you get a pointer to the first int in that array.
In other words,
int *ptr = (int*)(&a+1);
is equivalent to
int *ptr = (a + 5);
and this makes *(ptr-1) the same as *(a+4), which is the same as a[4], the last element of a.
The name of the array is the address. So &a and a have same value. &a evaluates to the same address and it creates a pointer of the type int(*)[size] which is a pointer to an array, not to a single element. If you increment this pointer, it'll add the size of the entire array, not the size of a single element.
int * ptr = &a[0]; ptr now points the first element of the array (1) ptr + 1 points to the 2, etc.
ptr+1 points to one after ptr, but that's one element. And the element here is int[5].
&adoesn't return a pointer to a pointer, see e.g this old question.