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		billpg on June 17, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A gentle introduction to pointers using C (2019) Not necessarily an integer. On the 8086, a pointer is a structure made up of two 16-bit integers.

projektfu on June 17, 2020 [–]

One of which, the segment number, may be implicit (near pointer) or explicit (far pointer).

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