C array types are weird
Hacker News·1mo·signa11
A deep dive into why C's array type system confuses even experienced developers. The post explores the quirks of how arrays decay to pointers, interact with function parameters, and differ from what intuition suggests—useful context for anyone building low-level tools or wrestling with C codebases.
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