Far

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The reserved word far:

• belongs to 16 bit programming (DOS, Windows 3.x);
• allows subroutines to be started in memory areas beyond the 64KB limit;
• allows DLLs to be jumped to in memory areas beyond the 64KB limit;
• became obsolete with 32-bit programming.

Examples:

//procedures
procedure subTest; far;
begin
end;

function fHandler: boolean; far;
begin
  fHandler:= true;
end;

//types
type
  PFarChar = ^char; far;

//vars
var
  prcf: Procedure; far;

From the Free Pascal wiki, page "Far", as it stood on 2022-10-21 after a change by Alextp, out of the wiki's dump of 2024-05-26. Copyright stays with the author who wrote it, according to the old wiki's Licensing page. If you have concerns about this material, message the admin.