* Laurent GUERBY: > Just curious: is there a "portable" way to read from memory > address zero in C code? "portable" here means likely to work > on most compilers without exotic compile flags in 2009.
No, C hasn't got a notion of addresses. The situation is likely to get even more extreme, not less (in the sense that C continues to be perceived as a low-level language, but current implementations really aren't).
