Stale pointer bug
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stale-pointer-bug-191-945259
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Stale pointer bug
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A stale pointer bug, otherwise known as an aliasing bug, is a class of subtle programming errors that can arise in code that does dynamic memory allocation, especially via the malloc function or equivalent. If several pointers address a given chunk of storage, it may happen that the storage is freed or reallocated through one alias and then referenced through another, which may lead to subtle errors depending on the state and the allocation history of the malloc arena. This bug can be avoided by
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stale_pointer_bug
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2024-04-13T23:09:03Z
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