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What is a huge pointer?

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Huge pointer is 32bit long containing segment address and offset address. Huge pointers are normalized pointers so for any given memory address there is only one possible huge address segment: offset pair. Huge pointer arithmetic is done with calls to special subroutines so its arithmetic slower than any other pointers.