Except that C targets the C abstract machine, which can't do a lot of stuff that is perfectly acceptable in assembly. Such as reading uninitialized memory, padd

Except that C targets the C abstract machine, which can't do a lot of stuff that is perfectly acceptable in assembly. Such as reading uninitialized memory, padding, overflowing signed integers, forging a pointer (e.g. for memory mapped I/O) out of thin air, dereferencing null...