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;

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