From: "A.Appleyard" <A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk>
Organization: Materials Science Centre
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 08:12:16 GMT
Subject: Re: Pointers
Message-ID: <1080C993B2F@fs2.mt.umist.ac.uk>

  design AT netcom DOT com (Chris Waters) wrote:-
> In article <325FE9B3 DOT 13AB AT cs DOT com>, John M. Aldrich <fighteer AT cs DOT com> wrote:
> [It is] untrue [that 16-bit compilers will use 16-bit pointers [only]]; most
> 16-bit compilers for the x86 offer a choice of 16-bit pointers (small model)
> or 24-bit pointers (stored in 32-bits as segment:offset; large model).

  I suspect that, in C / C++ / etc compilers that have near and far pointers,
near pointers are 16 bits and far pointers are 32 bits.