Question: Is the Rafeiro do Alentejo the same type of animal as the Ariege Pointer?

Context articles: West Siberian Laika
Function pointer
Ariege Pointer
Tagged pointer
Rafeiro do Alentejo
Pulo do Lobo
Azaruja sausage
Opaque pointer
Null pointer
German Wirehaired Pointer

The West Siberian Laika or "WSL", is a breed of hunting dog and a breed of spitz type.
 Russian publications indicate that the term West Siberian Laika loosely applied to hunting dogs originating with the Mansi and Khanty people in Ural and West Siberia, but there were no standards or registrations of WSL as such until 1930.
 Then WWll disrupted it for a while, but "systematic breeding with registrations" resumed after the war ended, in 1946.
 This was the time the breed began taking modern shape.
 Before that hunters only knew of Mansi Laika and Khanty Laika.
 In early 1960 many hunters in Ural still preferred the term Mansi Laika, when speaking of West Siberian Laika.
 In Russian language, the term Laika originated from the word "layat" that means to bark.
 The word Laika simply means "barker".
 Any hunting Laika is a bark pointer (pointing at animal of interest by barking and staying with the animal ).
 It is a versatile dog depending on use and environment, but in certain parts of the country they have become more specialized.
A function pointer (or subroutine pointer or procedure pointer) is a type of pointer supported by third-generation programming languages (such as PL/I, COBOL, Fortran, dBASE dBL, and C) and object-oriented programming languages (such as C++ and D).
The Braque de l’Ariège, translated into English as the Ariege Pointing Dog or Ariege Pointer, is a breed of dog, a French hunting dog of pointing gun dog type.
 The breed is kept primarily as a hunting dog, not as a pet or showdog.
In computer science, a tagged pointer is a pointer (concretely a memory address) with additional data associated with it, such as an indirection bit or reference count.
 This additional data is often "folded" into the pointer, meaning stored inline in the data representing the address, taking advantage of certain properties of memory addressing.
 The name comes from "tagged union", and the additional data is called a "tag" or "tags", though strictly speaking "tag" refers to data specifying a "type," not other data; however, the usage "tagged pointer" is standard.
The Rafeiro do Alentejo or Alentejo Mastiff, also called the Portuguese Mastiff, is a large breed of dog that originated in Portugal.
 The Rafeiro do Alentejo is of the livestock guardian dog type, and the name refers to its area of origin, Alentejo, in south-central Portugal.
 Although the word "rafeiro" means "mongrel" in Portuguese, the Rafeiro do Alentejo is recognized as a breed by the Portuguese Caniculture Club and the Fédération Cynologique Internationale.
Pulo do Lobo is a waterfall 17km north of Mértola, in the Lower Alentejo region of Portugal.
 It is the highest waterfall in Southern Portugal.
 Its name means "w"olf's leap"" in English; it was said that only a brave man or a wild animal when chased could leap over the gorge that was created by the waterfall.
Azaruja sausage is a type of sausage from Azaruja, Évora, Alentejo, Portugal.
 It is listed on the Ark of Taste.
 They are produced seasonally during the pig harvest season from December until February.
 Alentejo black pig (more widely known as Iberian black pig).
 Other ingredients include spices and bread.
 The family recipes go back at least 150 years and the sausages are made in traditional home kitchens using Alentejan fireplaces.
In computer programming, an opaque pointer is a special case of an opaque data type, a datatype declared to be a pointer to a record or data structure of some unspecified type.
In computing, a null pointer has a value reserved for indicating that the pointer does not refer to a valid object.
 Programs routinely use null pointers to represent conditions such as the end of a list of unknown length or the failure to perform some action; this use of null pointers can be compared to nullable types and to the "Nothing" value in an option type.
The German Wirehaired Pointer is a medium to large-sized griffon type breed of dog developed in the 19th century in Germany for hunting.
 It became a leading gun dog in Germany in the later part of the 20th century.
 It is the result of the careful mixing and crossing of the griffon, German Shorthaired Pointer,Deutscher Stichelhaar, Deutscher Kurzhaar, and the hunting Pudelpointer in the late 19th century.