> when you look at them wrong

no, almost whenever you look at them. it is very hard to carry around the size of an array in C.

> At least I'm seeing: `array type 'int[3]'` in messages when I tried to do something wrong with it quick to get an error message (using llvm), maybe that's a compiler specific thing.

post some code that illustrates what you are talking about

I was trying to get clang to throw an error that included type information to double check what it thought the type was. Quickest thing I could think of was trying to assign to an array.

The exact error in question was: error: array type 'int[3]' is not assignable

Which seems to imply that clang is considering the length to be part of the type.

edit: You asked for code (my apologies that it's rather trivial).

    int x[3] = {1, 2, 3};
    int y[3];
    y = x;