far pointer

[saurabh jain]

hi friends
tell me something about the funda
of far pointer in c/c++

 

[John Harrison]

hi friends
tell me something about the funda
of far pointer in c/c++

There are no such things as far pointers in C++.

They must be a language extension that your compiler provides, therefore
you should ask on a group that is about your compiler, not here.

Please read this groups welcome message for suggestions on where you
should post this question http://www.slack.net/~shiva/welcome.txt

john

 

[Ivan Vecerina]

hi friends
tell me something about the funda
of far pointer in c/c++

Hi,
There is no such thing as a 'far' pointer in standard C++.
This was an extension specific to old-time 16-bit x86 (DOS)
architectures using a segmented memory model - it's history now.

[ You basically had 'near' pointers that could only point
within a main/current memory segment, and 'far' pointers that
could refer to a larger memory range (all of the available 640KB) ]

 

[Arijit]

hi friends
tell me something about the funda
of far pointer in c/c++

The book you are learing C++ from is outdated. Get
a new one.

-Arijit