Lo, on Sunday, December 30, Dimitri Maziuk did write: > * William T Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > ... > > So... why *should* the programmer concern himself with individual > > bytes of memory? (Assuming he is writing an ordinary application and > > not a hardware driver or something similar). > > Because if he does not, his application will segfault and dump core.
No. This level of concern is necessary only for non-type-safe languages. It is provably impossible for a program written in a type-safe language to segfault (assuming that the language's run-time system is implemented correctly, of course). Richard
