* Dangling pointer bugs, which occur when a piece of memory is freed while there are still pointers to it, and one of those pointers is dereferenced.

Dangling pointers and wild pointers in computer programming are pointers that do not point to a valid object of the appropriate type.

Dangling pointers arise when an object is deleted or deallocated, without modifying the value of the pointer, so that the pointer still points to the memory location of the deallocated memory.

** Dangling pointers

Dangling participles should not be confused with clauses in absolute constructions, which are considered grammatical.

* Bira-bira-also called Fluttering or Dangling style, these are composed of metal strips attached by rings to the body of the ornament so that they move independently, pleasantly tinkling ( which is sometimes accentuated by additional bells ) or long chains of silk flowers called shidare.

Dangling from a homemade rope platform and holding a sign attacking the Rockland County Legislature and Executive, the protester stalled traffic through most of the midday period.

Dangling his gaudy trinkets before them, he told of the Rebel losses in the mountains, at Cheat and Rich mountains both, and the Federal march on Beverly.

Dangling 200 feet ( 61 meters ) below Akron, the fourth man, Seaman Apprentice C. M. " Bud " Cowart, is carried out to sea at an altitude of 2, 000 feet ( 610 meters ) and finally is reeled aboard Akron after two hours on the rope.

Lemke and D. Haneman, " Dangling bonds on silicon ", Physical Review B, 1978, v17, pp1893-1907.

* Special formats of and are provided that include pointers to the Windows equivalent SIDs ( in the GECOS field ), allowing for mapping between Unix and Windows users and groups.

* varargs are implemented as fat pointers

Cyclone implements three kinds of reference ( following C terminology these are called pointers ):

This extra limit, however, can be a rather large stumbling block for most C programmers, who are used to being able to manipulate their pointers directly with arithmetic.

A double-sided disk on the 1571 would have a capacity of 340 KB ( 70 tracks, 1, 360 disk blocks of 256 bytes each ); as 8 KB are reserved for system use ( directory and block availability information ) and, under CBM DOS, 2 bytes of each block serve as pointers to the next logical block, 254 x 1, 328 = 337, 312 B or about 329. 4 KB were available for user data.

Furthermore, no pointers are involved and subscripts are automatically checked.

Heaps are usually implemented in an array, and do not require pointers between elements.

Neodymium-doped crystals ( typically Nd: YVO < sub > 4 </ sub >) generate high-powered infrared laser beams which are converted to green laser light in commercial DPSS hand-held lasers and laser pointers.

Objects have a many to many relationship and are accessed by the use of pointers.

Byte pointers are supported by special instructions.

However conceptually they are simple and work with early languages such as FORTRAN and BASIC which did not have pointers or objects.

If values are stored by reference, e. g. objects, null references can be used and so the cluster can be represented by a vector containing 3 slots for value pointers plus 4 slots for child references in the tree.

The two pointers are traditionally named car and cdr respectively — but the more modern terms head and tail are often used instead.

Carried within the information payload, which has its own frame structure of nine rows and 261 columns, are administrative units identified by pointers.

In that case APIs are provided to translate between the AIX style pointers and the native 16 byte pointers.

The mnemonics for pointers and arrays, which are not actual data types, are usually followed by the type of the data element itself:

for comparing weights and simple pointers to indicate position are

Unrolled linked lists are simpler and often higher-performance than CDR coding ( no " tagged pointers "; typically less fragmentation ).

In some cases, BDAM data sets contained imbedded pointers which prevented them from being moved.

Record access is done by navigating through the data structure using pointers combined with sequential accessing.

To find any particular record the programmer had to step through these pointers one at a time until the required record was returned.

A file's linkage section can contain pointers for which an attempt to load the pointer into a register or make an indirect reference through it causes a trap.

* Indirect accesses through handles or pointers.

Smart pointers are opaque data structures that act like pointers but can only be accessed through particular methods.

Each graphics primitive operation is vectored through the StdProcs, a series of function pointers stored in the GrafPort.

; Low level multiprocessing: Instead of a single instruction pointer a Redcode simulator has a number of process queues, each containing a variable number of instruction pointers which the simulator cycles through.

The primary concern of the original engineers appears to have been fragmentation-that is, the repeated allocation and deallocation of memory through pointers leads to many small isolated areas of memory which cannot be used because they are too small, even though the total free memory may be sufficient to satisfy a particular request for memory.

If several pointers address ( are " aliases for ") a given hunk of storage, it may happen that the storage is freed or reallocated ( and thus moved ) through one alias and then referenced through another, which may lead to subtle ( and possibly intermittent ) lossage depending on the state and the allocation history of the malloc arena.

The resulting interface can then be called by languages that can call C functions through pointers.

While pointers can be made invalid through a variety of mechanisms, ranging from carrying a null value to out-of-bounds arithmetic to illegal casts to producing them from random integers, a previously-valid reference only becomes invalid in two cases:

However, higher-powered (> 5 mW ) DPSS-type laser pointers have recently become available, usually through sources that do not follow laser safety regulations for laser packaging and labeling.

Memory access through pointers is allowed just as in C.

In a language with free pointers and / or non-checked array writes ( such as C ), the mixing of control flow data affecting the execution of code ( return addresses, saved frame pointers ) and simple program data ( parameters, return values ) in a call stack is a security risk, possibly exploitable through buffer overflows.