What is a dangling pointer?
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Answer / sumithra.a
A dangling pointer arises when you use the address of an
object after its lifetime is over. This may occur in
situations like returning addresses of the automatic
variables from a function or using the address of the
memory block after it is freed
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Answer / achal ubbott
Here is an example of dangling pointer.
char* p = new char;// allocate a byte from heap section.
delete p ; // deallocation.
*p = 44 ; // using a dangling pointer.
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