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What is a far pointer? where we use it?

  
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January 03, 2007 11:07:30   #1  
Vikas        

RE: What is a far pointer? where we use it?
near, far pointers are the types of pointers in C. By using these pointers we can directly access memory to interact hardware before starting hardware programming in C.
 
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August 20, 2008 03:02:02   #2  
laxmii.s Member Since: August 2008   Contribution: 3    

RE: What is a far pointer? where we use it?
Far pointer is a pointer variable. It is just like near pointer. But if we use large memory models, then we can use these far pointers. Because these far pointers occupy 4 bytes of memory.


 
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