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Deleting a pointer

When deleting a pointer does it have to be set to "NULL" before the delete?

23rd Nov 2017, 10:07 PM
acoolwinter
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To add to Jamie's answer. We set it to null after deleting the pointer to prevent accidentally referencing the now empty memory location.
24th Nov 2017, 12:14 AM
jay
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A pointer is supposed to point to an object. Settibg it to Nul would be, well, pointless
23rd Nov 2017, 11:51 PM
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