TotalView® for HPC Getting Started Guide : Getting Started with TotalView Products : Memory Debugging : Finding Dangling Pointers
Finding Dangling Pointers
With memory debugging turned on in TotalView, you can identify a dangling pointer (points into deallocated memory) through additional information in the Variable Windows and the Stack Frame Pane, Figure 29.
 
Figure 29 – Dangling Pointers
 
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Fixing dangling pointers
“Fixing Dangling Pointer Problems” in Debugging Memory Problems with MemoryScape
Using the command dheap -is_dangling
“Checking for Dangling Pointers:
“dheap -is_dangling” in Debugging Memory Problems with MemoryScape