What is location of huge pointer in C language in Memory?

Question

What is the point of declaring Pointer of different types (eg. integer,float,char) as we all know pointer takes 4 bytes of space regardless which type of pointer it is and only contains address?

Answer 1

We need to understand it in the context of far pointer -

Both Far and huge pointers have a size of 4 bytes. They store both the segment and the offset of the address the pointer is referencing.

We cannot change or modify the segment address of given far address by applying any arithmetic operation on it. That is by using arithmetic operator we cannot jump from one segment to other segment.If you will increment the far address beyond the maximum value of its offset address instead of incrementing segment address it will repeat its offset address in cyclic order. See the following example (only applicable to old x86 platform)

int main()
{
    char far* f=(char far*)0x0000ffff;
    printf("%Fp",f+0x1);
    return 0;
}
Output 
0x00000000

When a far pointer is incremented or decremented ONLY the offset of the pointer is actually incremented or decremented but in case of huge pointer both segment and offset value will change as the following

int main()
{
    char huge* f=(char huge*)0x0000ffff;
    printf("%Fp",f+0x1);
    return 0;
}
Output 
0x00010000

Answer 2

A far pointer was composed of a segment as well as an offset but no normalisation was performed. And a huge pointer was automatically normalised. Two far pointers could conceivably point to the same location in memory but be different whereas the normalised huge pointers pointing to the same memory location would always be equal.

Answer 3

The pointer which can point or access whole the residence memory of RAM i.e. which can access all the 16 segments is known as huge pointer.
Size of huge pointer is 4 byte or 32 bit.