Near, Far and Huge Pointers in C
In older times, the intel processors had 16-bit registers but the address bus was 20-bits wide. Due to this, the registers were not able to hold the entire address at once. As a solution, the memory was divided into segments of 64 kB size, and the near pointers, far pointers, and huge pointers were used in C to store the addresses.
There are old concepts used in 16-bit intel architectures, not of much use anymore.
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