In C, are arrays pointers or used as pointers?

Question

My understanding was that arrays were simply constant pointers to a sequence of values, and when you declared an array in C, you were declaring a pointer and allocating spac

Answer 1

In

char hello[] = "hello there"
int i;

and

char* hello = "hello there";
int i;

In the first instance (discounting alignment) 12 bytes will be stored for hello with the allocated space initialised to hello there while in the second hello there is stored elsewhere (possibly static space) and hello is initialised to point to the given string.

hello[2] as well as *(hello + 2) will return 'e' in both instances however.