Answer to Question #157632 in C++ for zain ul abdeen

Question

What is memory leak, and dangling pointer?

Answer 1

Memory Leak

In computer science, a memory leak occurs when a computer program incorrectly manages memory allocations. As per simple we have allocated the memory and not Free other language term say not release it call memory leak it is fatal to application and unexpected crash.

char *myarea=(char *)malloc(10);

char *newarea=(char *)malloc(10);

myarea=newarea;

Dangling Pointer

If any pointer is pointing the memory address of any variable but after some variable has deleted from that memory location while pointer is still pointing such memory location. Such pointer is known as dangling pointer and this problem is known as dangling pointer problem.

#include<stdio.h>

  int *call();

  void main(){

      int *ptr;
      ptr=call();

      fflush(stdin);
      printf("%d",*ptr);

   }

 int * call(){

   int x=25;
   ++x;
   return &x;
 }