<<But this is not the memory model of C! Adding an offset to a pointer
is an operation involving objects defined by the C language, and not
machine registers. Sometimes, this makes a noticeable difference.
>>
Indeed Alex Stepanov notes that Ada unlike C, *does* have general pointer
arithmetic, assuming a linear address space, and finds the lack of this in
C a problem :-) :-)
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