You can't increment/decrement "a" because it's not a pointer. When "a" is used by itself without dereferencing, it evaluates to an r-value address which cannot appear in expressions that alter its value. Use the sub-script operator if you want to access an array:
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int main()
{
int a[] = {10, 20, 30, 40, 50};
int j;
for(j=0; j<5; j++)
printf("%d\n", a[j]);
return 0;
}