> Careful: In C, memory isn't a huge array of bytes. Of course it is; the platform you are used to might have additional constraints, but that is outside of C

> Careful: In C, memory isn't a huge array of bytes. Of course it is; the platform you are used to might have additional constraints, but that is outside of C itself. On your platform (hardware/OS combination) it may not not be an array of bytes, but rest assured that conforming C compilers exist on platforms, such as embedded ones, where you can literally get a pointer to address zero, and use all the RAM as a huge array of bytes.