Ashwan

• Jul 26th, 2007

 

Dangling Pointer is a pointer pointing to either unallocated memory area or to the area that has already been freed. In simple words, Dangling pointer is the one that points no-where.

jaihind007

 Profile Answers by jaihind007 

• Jul 15th, 2008

 

Dangling pointer leads the memory leak problems. The following circumstances are memory leak ( dangling pointers ), not for good programming practice , try to avoid

1) Try to avoid the empty object pointer creation
2) Memory allocation without de allocation.
3) With out memory allocation , But de allocation.
4) Memory allocation , De allocation , But again unnecessary de allocation. 

Solution:

Make sure created object is set it to NULL pointer. While destructing the object deallocate the memory and set the object is NULL.