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by chrisseaton 1403 days ago
> How is the C memory modelled?

Using a combination of native memory and JVM managed memory, depending on what the memory is needed for.

> For instance, what happens when you call a function-pointer?

This is a good example - because TruffleC can inline-cache a function-pointer, inlining the called function!

All this is in the linked paper, of course.