C: Far Pointer: research

Far pointers are a specialty of the 8086 architecture. Unless you are going to write DOS or Windows 16 programs, you won't ever need to use them. Far pointers aren't part of standard C either and do not exist on other platforms.

Answer from Link #1 is good and clear one:If does nothing unless you happen to be using a 16 bit x86 compiler.

If you look in the Win32 header WinDef.h (in Visual Studio, simply right-click the word FAR in the source and select "Go to Definition", you will see that it is a macro defined as far, which in turn is also a macro defined as nothing at all!

It is only there to allow the compilation of legacy Win16 source as Win32. In 16 bit x86 compilers, far was a compiler extension keyword to support seg::offset pointers which resolve to a 20bit address (16 bit x86 only had a 1Mb address space!). They are distinct from 16 bit near pointers which comprised only the ::offset from the current segment.

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