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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 4 of 5.

Priyanka said: 1 decade ago

Thank you dear for explanation.

DHILAN said: 1 decade ago

Thank you for this explanation.

Pavan said: 9 years ago

What is does please explain?

Thilak said: 1 decade ago

Thanks for nice explanation.

Sowmya said: 1 decade ago

I am not understand huge?

Ranjith kumar said: 1 decade ago

How bytes are calculated?

Rajesh said: 1 decade ago

@bijan
thank u sooo much

Siva said: 1 decade ago

What is huge pointers?

Siva said: 1 decade ago

What is near, far?

Dinesh said: 8 years ago

What is huge here?

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