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Pointers

How many bytes are occupied by near, far and huge pointers (DOS)?

near=2 far=4 huge=4

near=4 far=8 huge=8

near=2 far=4 huge=8

near=4 far=4 huge=8

Answer: Option

Explanation:

near=2, far=4 and huge=4 pointers exist only under DOS. Under windows and Linux every pointers is 4 bytes long.

Discussion:

41 comments Page 3 of 5.

Haresh said: 1 decade ago

DOS is Hardware or Software? please answer me.

Shivu said: 9 years ago

Anyone can please explain the near, far, huge.

YASh said: 8 years ago

How to count byte in this type of example?

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Himanshu jha said: 1 decade ago

What is defination of near, far, huge?

Prasadreddy307 said: 1 decade ago

What is defination of near, far, huge?

Vasanth said: 1 decade ago

What is defination of near, far, huge

Vijay said: 8 years ago

Where is used this types of pointers?

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Nupur said: 1 decade ago

Thankyou for such a nice explanation

Varsha said: 1 decade ago

What is huge? Please explain huge.

Dipika said: 8 years ago

Nice explanation, thank you all.

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