I''m looking for a good explination of what a far pointer is... a web site or just a description here would be cool... thanks guys. 40 www.databyss.com www.omlettesoft.com "Don''t meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger."

As far as I know, far pointers are just left over from the days of dos coding and 16 bit pointers. A far pointer would point to a memory address "far away", that had an address that required 32 bits. In Windows, all pointers are 32 bit, so that no longer exists.
Of course, I could be completely confusing this with something else, but, I *think* that''s right...

Just a little more clarification
DOS memory is divided up into 64k blocks. To reference stuff in the same block you would need a near pointer(16bit/2bytes). To reference something in a separate 64k block you''d need a far pointer(20 bit) 20 bit? Yup, the compiler had to analyze a far pointer by breaking it into two segments and doing some math. Always a slowdown and I remember seeing one game that forced all the functions as near to keep them in the same block)(about a 30-50% increase)

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