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 26.

 

Figure 26: Dangling Pointers

See More

On fixing dangling pointers: “Fixing Dangling Pointer Problems” in the MemoryScape User Guide

On using the command dheap –is_dangling: “Checking for Dangling Pointers: dheap –is_dangling” in the MemoryScape User Guide