Re: normalization of pointers...

Chris Hills wrote:

In article <f3k080$tdm$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Chris Dollin
<chris.dollin@xxxxxx> writes
Shraddha wrote:

So I am asking what is far pointers?

They are not a feature of Standard C; they are a non-standard
(and, as I understand it, largely obsolete) feature of certain
implementations.

I'd advise learning C from a source that isn't so implementation-
specific. (My preference is for K&R 2; others differ.)

Many compilers have FAR pointers.

Perhaps many do. None of those FAR (or `far` or `_far`) pointers
are Standard C, though, which is my main point above.

Not just WinTel stuff.

I didn't say Windows. Even if I thought it. Did I?

Not just in old compilers either.

I didn't say "old compilers", either. I understood this /feature/
to be largely /obsolete/; perhaps I'm wrong. Perhaps it depends
on the scope of the "largely".

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