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In article <3vqqtu$2r9@nms.telepost.no>, Rune.huseby@gpi.telemax.no (Rune
Huseby) writes: 
|> In Visual C++ 1.5 and Borland C++, the following example prints "false",
even  
|> though section 6.2.2.3 of the standard gives that it should print "true"
|> 
|> void main(void)
|> {
|>   int *ptr1 = NULL;
|>   int __far *ptr2 = NULL;
|>   
|>   if(ptr1 == ptr2)
|>      printf("true");
|>   else
|>      printf("false");     
|> }

The standard says nothing about a program that uses __far. If you use an
identifier from the implementation namespace, only the implementation
documentation can tell you what happens: the standard is irrelevant.

Cheers
Tanmoy
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