Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 09:57:50 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Sam Hays <sam@ecofl.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: C question Message-ID: <20000126095750.D43103@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <001701bf6777$92f0ffa0$297631cc@ecofl.com> References: <001701bf6777$92f0ffa0$297631cc@ecofl.com>
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On Tuesday, 25 January 2000 at 15:03:04 -0600, Sam Hays wrote: > Out of curiosity, > what is the difference between NEAR and FAR in C/C++? please don't respond > w/ a damned man page =] thanx These are non-standard extensions used on some architectures with two different pointer lengths. 'near' is a shorter pointer which can't address the entire address space. 'far' is a longer pointer which (normally) can address the entire address space, but which takes up more space itself. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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