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Old 03-26-2007, 04:38 PM
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I recently came across a term called as near and far pointers. Is these terms related to C programming language? If so what does these terms mean.
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Old 04-24-2007, 09:36 AM
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Far pointers are the normalized pointers of four bytes which are used to access the main memory of the computer. It can access both the data segment and code segment.
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