What is dangling ponter?

#1

is it same as wild pointer?please provide a eg to understand this.

#2

Hi Aman,
Dangling Pointer: A pointer pointing to a memory location that has been deleted (or freed) is called dangling pointer. A dangling pointer points to data which is not valid anymore,
Ex:
Class *object = new Class();
Class *object2 = object;

delete object;
object = nullptr;
// now object2 points to something which is not valid anymore

Wild Pointer: A pointer which has not been initialized to anything (not even NULL) is known as wild pointer. The pointer may be initialized to a non-NULL garbage value that may not be a valid address.
Ex:
int main()
{
int *p; // wild pointer

int x = 10; 

// p is not a wild pointer now 
p = &x; 

return 0;

}