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DANGLING pointer ...?

Abhishek Jaiswal

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What is DANGLING pointer ...?

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Vulpes13y ago
A dangling pointer is a pointer which no longer points to an object of the appropriate type.

This happens when an object is deleted but the pointer is not set to NULL or to the address of another object of that type. If the original memory has been reclaimed, it could now point to virtually anything which could cause some 'hard to find' bugs.