Are negative array indexes allowed in C?

Question

I was just reading some code and found that the person was using arr[-2] to access the 2nd element before the arr, like so:

|a|b|c|         


        

Answer 1

#include 

int main() // negative index
{ 
    int i = 1, a[5] = {10, 20, 30, 40, 50};
    int* mid = &a[5]; //legal;address,not element there
    for(; i < 6; ++i)
    printf(" mid[ %d ] = %d;", -i, mid[-i]);
}