To what extent is it acceptable to think of C++ pointers as memory addresses?

Question

When you learn C++, or at least when I learned it through C++ Primer, pointers were termed the \"memory addresses\" of the elements they point to. I\'m wondering to

Answer 1

The particular example you give:

For example, do two elements *p1 and *p2 have the property p2 = p1 + 1 or p1 = p2 + 1 if and only if they are adjacent in physical memory?

would fail on platforms that do not have a flat address space, such as the PIC. To access physical memory on the PIC, you need both an address and a bank number, but the latter may be derived from extrinsic information such as the particular source file. So, doing arithmetic on pointers from different banks would give unexpected results.