Tombstone (programming)
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tombstone-programming-171-6289818
title:
Tombstone (programming)
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Tombstones are a mechanism to detect dangling pointers and mitigate the problems they can cause in computer programs. Dangling pointers can appear in certain computer programming languages, e.g. C, C++ and assembly languages. A tombstone is a structure that acts as an intermediary between a pointer and its target, often heap-dynamic data in memory. The pointer – sometimes called the handle – points only at tombstones and never to its actual target. When the data is deallocated, the tombstone is
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Computer programming technique
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tombstone_(programming)
date created:
2005-10-17T00:01:21Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T07:37:51Z
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