Is this a true statement?

[Greg Ewing]

"Dr. David Mertz" wrote:
> 
> claim there is no way "that naturally maps the program constructs to the
> memory accesses involved."  The last is probably something true... but
> it is only true as long as no one writes a devicedriver.py extension
> module that contains some functions like "access_memory_address()."

Strictly speaking, the C language doesn't provide any
way of accessing specific memory addresses, either.
Techniques for doing so rely on knowledge of details
of the implementation being used.

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