Create a pointer to two-dimensional array

Question

I need a pointer to a static 2-dimensional array. How is this done?

static uint8_t l_matrix[10][20];

void test(){
   uint8_t **matrix_ptr = l_matrix; //wron         


        

Answer 1

You can always avoid fiddling around with the compiler by declaring the array as linear and doing the (row,col) to array index calculation by yourself.

static uint8_t l_matrix[200];

void test(int row, int col, uint8_t val)

{

   uint8_t* matrix_ptr = l_matrix;
   matrix_ptr [col+y*row] = val; // to assign a value

}

this is what the compiler would have done anyway.