Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > * 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.
Not if he's writing in a reasonable language for high-level applications that takes care of all that stuff. Craig