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I got one issue to find the Dangling Pointer.
Is there any way to find the Dangling Pointer?
Feb 15 '07 #1
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kvbreddy
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Hi,
There are tools like Valgrind, Mudflap, or LLVM can be used to detect uses of dangling pointers.

Vijay



I got one issue to find the Dangling Pointer.
Is there any way to find the Dangling Pointer?
Feb 15 '07 #2
madhusagar79
2 New Member
Hi,
There are tools like Valgrind, Mudflap, or LLVM can be used to detect uses of dangling pointers.

Vijay
I need the logic to find the Dangling Pointer.
In the code itself it should be find and give the message of whether it is a Dangling Pointer or not.
I don't want to use any tools to find Dangling Pointer.
Feb 16 '07 #3
RRick
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Dangling Pointer? Can I get a quick description of what this is.
Feb 16 '07 #4
Banfa
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Dangling Pointer? Can I get a quick description of what this is.
A "dangling" pointer is basically any pointer that is not pointing at a valid piece of memory.

A couple of classic ways to create such a pointer are
  • A function that returns a pointer to a variable on it's stack
  • Deallocating the memory that a pointer points to
  • A memory correuption overwriting the current value of a pointer

A dangling pointer in it self does not cause an error, however they are very dangerous because as soon as you write to them you will either corrupt some piece of memory or get some sort of memory access exception.

Because of this the pointer where the error(exception ) occurs is often no-where near where the actual bug in code is because the dangling pointer can have been hanging around for some time before it was written to. This makes finding such problems in your code particularly hard.
Feb 16 '07 #5
RRick
463 Recognized Expert Contributor
Thanks for the info. I wasn't sure how far the definition was suppose to extend for dangling pointers.

To answer the original posting, there is no subroutine call available that can tell you the "dangling" status of a pointer. C and C++ does not keep information about this kind of status for any of the variables.

If you want this kind of information, you need to generate and keep it yourself. The apps mentioned above (Valgrind, etc.) do generate and keep information like this. This is not a trivial task. Each of the ways dangling pointers are generated (see above) need different techniques to keep track of the data status.

If you want to do this yourself in a program, we would be happy to hear how you plan to do this.
Feb 16 '07 #6

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