what is a far pointer

Answer Posted / sujith

I am not very sure what Bhardwaj is trying to answer with a
secondary memory. If he point out something to your hard
disk or something like that, i think i cannot agree with that.

Any pointer by default is a near pointer. another set of
pointers are far and huge, and they differ only in terms how
they store the value of the normalised pointer value.

A far/huge pointer is used to access a location which is
outside your current segment.

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