Farhanaaz

• Aug 27th, 2007

 

Wild pointers are also known as Dangling pointers. Pointers that do not point to a valid object of the appropriate type, or to a distinguished null pointers value in language which support this.

abhimanipal

 Profile Answers by abhimanipal 

• Jul 6th, 2009

 

A dangling pointer is a pointer to storage that is no longer allocated

These examples can further clarify the point

{
   char *cp = NULL;
   /* ... */
   {
       char c;
       cp = &c;
   } /* c falls out of scope */          
     /* cp is now a dangling pointer */
} 

{
    char *cp = malloc ( A_CONST );
    /* ... */
    free ( cp );      /* cp now becomes a dangling pointer */
    cp = NULL;        /* cp is no longer dangling */
    /* ... */
}

Deepali Padval

• Aug 22nd, 2011

 

Wild pointer is a pointer which has not been initialized.
i.e.
It has not have any address assigned to it.
e.g.

Code
int function1()


{


     int a=5;   


     int *b;       // wild pointer(uninitialized)


     printf("value of a=%d",a);


}

wild pointer

• Aug 24th, 2011

 

Wild pointer is a pointer that doesn’t point to either a valid object (of the indicated type, if applicable), or to a distinguished null value, if applicable.

sunil

• Feb 20th, 2013

 

A pointer which does not hold any valid address is called wild pointer

chandu

• Apr 5th, 2013

 

wild pointer is a pointer which has not been initialized i.e point to nothing