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5.2.15. Far vs Near
The pointer which can point or access whole of the residence memory of RAM, i.e. which can access all 16 seg-
ments, is known as far pointer. The size of far pointer is 4 bytes.
The pointer which can point or access only 64KB data segment of RAM, i.e. which can access only 8 segments,
is known as far pointer. The size of far pointer is 4 bytes.
Difference between void pointer, NULL pointer, wild pointer and dangling pointer.

void pointer NULL pointer wild pointer dangling pointer

It can point to memory It points to a NULL value. It points to any random It points to a memory
address of any type of address(garbage value) address of a variable,
variable. which has been deleted