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dangling pointer
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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n. [common] A reference that doesn't actually lead anywhere (in C and some
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other languages, a pointer that doesn't actually point at anything valid).
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Usually this happens because it formerly pointed to something that has moved
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or disappeared. Used as jargon in a generalization of its techspeak meaning;
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for example, a local phone number for a person who has since moved to the
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other coast is a dangling pointer.
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