Understanding the Dangling Pointers

Data Structures: Understanding the Dangling Pointers
Topics discussed:
1) What is a Dangling pointer?
2) How to avoid the Dangling pointers?.
3) Examples of Dangling pointer.
4) Segmentation fault.
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what i understood is that the variable inside the local function gets dealocated from the stack automatically by the compiler , so returning the pointer of a dealocated memory location makes it a dangling pointer , i hope i userstood it right ? and thank you so much

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[@amiral3187]

Thank you for the explaination, but as I try to recompile the same examples(example2) the compiler only gives me a warning for returning a local address but the program runs normally(no segmentaion fault Error),
does this means that new compilers(GCC) are optimized to avoid dangling pointers or I'm missing something ?
My code:
#include
#include
int* CreatInt(int var)
{
int I = var;
return &I;
}
int main(void)
{
int *ptr = NULL;
ptr = CreatInt(10);
printf("ptr contains: %d
", *ptr);
return 0;
}
The output:
program.c: In function 'CreatInt':
program.c:79:2: warning: function returns address of local variable [-Wreturn-local-addr]
return &I;
^
GCC_EXIT_CODE: 0
ptr contains: 10

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Use static int to avoid the problem.

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Yes because static variables remains till the program execution

[@shantanukulkarni8883]

When I tried to execute the second example's program for dangling pointer in my pc, it ran without any errors. I also got the correct output as 10. I did get a warning about the fun() function returning a address of local variable but that's it. How is this possible?

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I have same problem in But I didn't get any warning about fun() returning a address of local variable in Turbo C++ compiler. But when I tried to run it in VS code program didn't run at all and throws a warning " warning: function returns address of local variable".

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I didn't get any warning about fun() returning a address of local variable in Turbo C++ compiler and my program runs successfully. But when I tried to run it in VS code program didn't run at all and throws a warning " warning: function returns address of local variable".

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Kya dangling pointer us memory ko point to krra h vo us memory ko use kr skta h na aur value assign krke print kraya to horra h codeblocks pr .... How say 1000 memory is not exist *p still point so we can use it???

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why do we use free() if it causes dangling?

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How to use a function pointer in struct?

[@dileepcheekala2617]

In example2 output is 10

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i am not getting segmentation fault but getting the num value printed as 10 can u help me out

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Same 4 me..

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The thing is that you may get segmentation fault when you deal with the return address of local variable.I am sure you might be getting warning messages.It is not advisable to use this method.It might work for some cases while it may not work for other cases...its better to avoid it.

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visual studio 2019 could not high light this fault its execute successfully

[@jacklaughter1219]

at 4.25, what if we define "num" as static int? then in my compiler, it works without warning.

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scope of the static variable is throughout the program.

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2:43 sir what if we skip free(ptr) ????

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I think the memory allocated to 'ptr' is still not yet freed.
Even though 'ptr' will not point to any memory location(i.e NULL pointer) but the chunk of memory allocated using malloc function will be inaccessible due to not being freed.
There will be no error while compiling or running the program but it is a bug.
So, free(ptr) is necessary.

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Is this for java?

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2:13
2:48
4:50

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dude when I tried it it gave me waning at compile time but gave the right answer and right memory address...
```
#include
#include
int *haha () {
int num = 554;
printf("in hah->%d:%u
", num, &num);
return #
}
void main () {
printf("%d: %u
", *haha() , haha());
}
```

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Why int * fun() is used isn't it a function pointer?