Dangling pointer
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dangling-pointer-171-6282056
title:
Dangling pointer
text:
Dangling pointers and wild pointers in computer programming are pointers that do not point to a valid object of the appropriate type. These are special cases of memory safety violations. More generally, dangling references and wild references are references that do not resolve to a valid destination. Dangling pointers arise during object destruction, when an object that has an incoming reference is deleted or deallocated, without modifying the value of the pointer, so that the pointer still poin
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encyclopedia
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Pointer that does not point to a valid object
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangling_pointer
date created:
2004-10-31T07:32:20Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T07:37:45Z
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