Let me clarify with an example. Suppose you have an array:

  int a[10]

There is a section of memory of size sizeof(int) * 10 somewhere, and the variable a is a * int that points to that section. When someone does this:

  int x = a[2]

It is equivalent to:

  int x = *(a+(sizeof(int)*2))

When I said "array pointer" in my previous comment, all it meant was the memory address that the variable (which is an array) points to (in the example, the variable "a")

Edit: missing paren