C doesn’t do anything particularly strange with pointers. Most of the weirdness comes from arrays not actually being arrays and sizeof being a primitive with a

C doesn’t do anything particularly strange with pointers. Most of the weirdness comes from arrays not actually being arrays and sizeof being a primitive with a surprising behaviour in my experience. Apart from that you have to understand the difference between the stack and the heap and how your system treats malloc (well understanding that it can fail goes a long way) but that’s pretty much it. There are probably some sharp corners I’m not thinking of around type conversions but that’s the kind of thing you expect from a strongly typed language. Most of the caveats are in how compilers treat C rather than how close it is to the hardware to be honest.