Issue #4312 - Fixed Precison of Dangling Pointer Definition#4313
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Current Definition on page 103 under the heading Dangling References:
"In languages with pointers, it’s easy to erroneously create a dangling pointer—a pointer that
references a location in memory that may have been given to someone else—by freeing
some memory while preserving a pointer to that memory."
Proposed Change:
In languages with pointers, it’s easy to erroneously create a dangling pointer — a pointer that references a memory location that has been de-allocated or the original data no longer exists, but the reference still tries to access it.