Funny. My first thought of question one is we'd need to make assumptions about which architecture we're working on to know this answer. By the time I got to que

Funny. My first thought of question one is we'd need to make assumptions about which architecture we're working on to know this answer. By the time I got to question 3, I realized the author's trend. This is both the curse and blessing of C, a language that gives you just barely a high level translation layer over the raw silicon.