> Unless you're working on a microcontroller class system, or other system without an MMU but that's a whole other kettle of fish So C can do actual memory man

> Unless you're working on a microcontroller class system, or other system without an MMU but that's a whole other kettle of fish So C can do actual memory management, your OS or hardware just won't let you. I've done programming for audio effects gear where memory is directly accessible by real address. Often with different memory chips with different performance characteristics (for cost reasons) corresponding to different pointer value ranges. Just because your machine won't let you do it doesn't mean C isn't capable of it.